Clouds Are Not Spheres

Name: Clouds Are Not Spheres
Director: Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon
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

Directed by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

Documentary

20100h 55m7.7

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.