28 Sep 2005
The Story of 1
A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, the measurement of distances in India, and the decimal system created by Leibnitz.
Clouds Are Not Spheres
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.
Top Billed Cast
Benoît B. Mandelbrot Self
Martin Shaw Self - Host
Ivar Giaever Self - Physicist & Nobel Prize-Winner in Biology
Pierre Roubinet Self - Philosopher
Carl Evertsz Self - Physicist
Martin Gutzwiller Self - Theoretical Physicist
Ralph E. Gomory Self - Former Head of Research IBM
Ronald Coifman Self - Mathematician
Bernard Sapoval Self - Physicist
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