Clouds Are Not Spheres

The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician

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.

Cast

Benoît B. Mandelbrot

Self

Martin Shaw

Self - Host

Ivar Giaever

Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology

Pierre Roubinet

Self - Philosopher

Heinz-Otto Peitgen

Self - Mathematician

Carl Evertsz

Self - Physicist

Martin Gutzwiller

Self - Theoretical Physicist

Ralph E. Gomory

Self - Former Head of Research IBM

Ronald Coifman

Self - Mathematician

Bernard Sapoval

Self - Physicist