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. | ||
Title | : | Clouds Are Not Spheres |
Release Date | : | 2010-01-01 |
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Production Countries | : | United Kingdom, |
Production Co. | : | Gordon Films UK |
Genres | : | Documentary, |
Casts | : | Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Martin Shaw, Ivar Giaever, Pierre Roubinet, Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Carl Evertsz, Martin Gutzwiller, Ralph E. Gomory, Ronald Coifman, Bernard Sapoval, |
Plot Keywords | : | mathematics, mathematician, geometry, ibm, fractal, |
Alternative Titles | : | I frattali: la geometria della natura nella vita e nelle parole di Benoit Mandelbrot Clouds Are Not Spheres: The Fractal Theory of Benoit Mandelbrot Video Clouds Are Not Spheres: A Portrait of Benoît Mandelbrot, the Founding Father of Fractal Geometry Clouds Are Not Spheres: The Life and Work of a Maverick Mathematician |