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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DeceasedBorn: November 20, 1924
Died: October 14, 2010
Age at death: 85
as Self - Host
AliveBorn: January 21, 1945
Age: 81
Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
as Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology
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as Self - Philosopher
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Nümbrecht, Germany
as Self - Physicist
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as Self - Theoretical Physicist
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as Self - Former Head of Research IBM
AliveBorn: May 7, 1929
Age: 97
Brooklyn Heights, New York, USA
as Self - Mathematician
AliveBorn: June 29, 1941
Age: 85
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
as Self - Physicist
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