Ron Eglash

If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now…

— Ron Eglash

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

— Ron Eglash

The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African…

— Ron Eglash

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

— Ron Eglash

There is no singular 'reason' why Africans use fractals, any more than a singular reason why Americans like rock music. Such enormous…

— Ron Eglash

Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of…

— Ron Eglash

Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in…

— Ron Eglash

Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see…

— Ron Eglash

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think…

— Ron Eglash

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized…

— Ron Eglash

The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties…

— Ron Eglash

I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks…

— Ron Eglash

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the…

— Ron Eglash