There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices just cover too much social terrain. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs. — Ron Eglash Copy Share
The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals -… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. — Ron Eglash Copy Share
There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous cultural practices… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it,… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might… — Ron Eglash Copy Share
