MOVIE

Clouds Are Not Spheres

Name: Clouds Are Not Spheres
Director: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-01-01
Cast: Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Martin Shaw, Ivar Giaever, Pierre Roubinet, Heinz-Otto Peitgen

The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician

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.

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Release Date

2010-01-01

Year

2010

Duration

55m

Status

Released

Score

7.70

Genres

Documentary

Production

Gordon Films UK

#mathematics#mathematician#geometry#ibm#fractal

Cast

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Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Martin Shaw

Self - Host

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Ivar Giaever

Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology

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Pierre Roubinet

Self - Philosopher

Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Self - Mathematician

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Carl Evertsz

Self - Physicist

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Martin Gutzwiller

Self - Theoretical Physicist

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Ralph E. Gomory

Self - Former Head of Research IBM

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Ronald Coifman

Self - Mathematician

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Bernard Sapoval

Self - Physicist