Mountains are not cones. . . the beautiful mind of Benoit Mandelbrot 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. "The shapes of nature are overwhelmingly complicated and they defy description by the tools of Euclid" Benoit...Les mer

Medvirkende

Martin Shaw

Ivar Giaever

Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon

Benoit Mandelbrot