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.
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2010
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Cast
Benoît B. Mandelbrot
As Self
Martin Shaw
As Self - Host
Ivar Giaever
As Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology
Pierre Roubinet
As Self - Philosopher
Heinz-Otto Peitgen
As Self - Mathematician
Carl Evertsz
As Self - Physicist
Martin Gutzwiller
As Self - Theoretical Physicist
Ralph E. Gomory
As Self - Former Head of Research IBM
Ronald Coifman
As Self - Mathematician
Bernard Sapoval
As Self - Physicist
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