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Clouds Are Not Spheres

  • January 2010
  • 55mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon,

    Starring

    Benoît B. Mandelbrot,

    Martin Shaw,

    Ivar Giaever,

    Pierre Roubinet

    ...

    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.