Benoît B. Mandelbrot
Self
Clouds Are Not Spheres
“The life and work of a Maverick Mathematician”
2010
55m
Director: 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.
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10 people
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