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 Image
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
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 Image
Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
