
Clouds Are Not Spheres
7.7
20100h 55m
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Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slope of a mountain or the beauty of the human body. With fractal geometry, Benoit Mandelbrot gave us a language for our natural world. In this captivating documentary, the man himself explains this groundbreaking discovery.
Director: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
Cast: Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Martin Shaw, Ivar Giaever, Pierre Roubinet, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Carl Evertsz, Martin Gutzwiller, Ralph E. Gomory
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