African Quote by Ron Eglash

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

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

I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

— Louis L'Amour

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

— Ron Eglash

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

“Fractals are beautiful to look at when graphed and, thus, had been used in arts and the sciences.  It first appeared in art in…

— Tim Clearbrook

Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial…

— Benoit Mandelbrot