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Clouds Are Not Spheres

7.7 55 mins Documentary   2010
Gordon Films UK  
Director(s): Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

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.

Casts of Clouds Are Not Spheres

Martin Shaw

as Self - Host

Ivar Giaever

as Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology

Pierre Roubinet

as Self - Philosopher

Heinz-Otto Peitgen

as Self - Mathematician

Carl Evertsz

as Self - Physicist

Martin Gutzwiller

as Self - Theoretical Physicist

Ralph E. Gomory

as Self - Former Head of Research IBM

Ronald Coifman

as Self - Mathematician

Bernard Sapoval

as Self - Physicist

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