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Clouds Are Not Spheres

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.
Release Date: 2010-01-01
Documentary
★★★★★★★★★★ (3 votes)

Casts

Martin Shaw
as Self - Host
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
as Self - Mathematician

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