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Clouds Are Not Spheres

Documentary
7.7·2010·0h 55m

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. W...

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Benoît B. Mandelbrot

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Martin Shaw

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

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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Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

OVERVIEW

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.