Clouds Are Not Spheres: A Portrait of Benoît Mandelbrot, The Founding Father of Fractal Geometry : World Scientific Publishing : 9781786344748 : 1786344742 : 22 Mar 2018 : 'The book is well-illustrated, earlier chapters with monochrome portraits of Mandelbrot, his family and those who influenced him, and later ones with striking colour pictures not only of the Mandelbrot set and other computer generated fractals, but also of â?~realâ?? fractals including cloud formations and rural and mountain scenes ... This celebration of Mandelbrotâ??s scientific life is largely based on interviews that the author had with him when making films on his work ... A challenge for historians of mathematics and science in coming years will be to produce a more broadly contextual and rounded account of the advent of fractals.'London Math SocietyThe time is right, following Benoît Mandelbrot's death in 2010, to publish this landmark book about the life and work of this maverick math genius.This compact book