Clouds Are Not Spheres

Name: Clouds Are Not Spheres
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-01-01
Duration: 55 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Martin Shaw, Ivar Giaever, Pierre Roubinet, Heinz-Otto Peitgen

"The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician"

7.7/ 10 · 0K votes

2010-01-01

55m

Released

Documentary

Storyline

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

Keywords

mathematics mathematician geometry ibm fractal

Production

Gordon Films UK