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Ron Eglash
American Scientist
Born: Dec 25, 1958
Aerial African Architecture First Mathematics You
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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
Music Too Much Enormous Too More Like Terrain Practices Rock Rock Music Cover Singular Cultural Than American Any Just African Social Much Use Reason Why
The best thing we can do is give students the tools for constructing their own identities - powerful new tools like African fractals - and then just get out of the way. Ron Eglash
Best Own Tools Way Out Give Constructing Students Powerful New Like Identities Get Just African Then Thing
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
Mathematics Architecture First Considered Never Thus Primitive Occurred Came Been Discovered Very Africa African Form Them Might Disorganized Using Europeans Even
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 the human lung are branches within branches. Ron Eglash
Life You Plants Everywhere Drawn See Within Geometry Lines Branches Human Sand Cycle Even Lung Flowers
Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African village, you see fractals. And I thought, 'This is fabulous! I wonder why?' And of course I had to go to Africa and ask folks why. Ron Eglash
You Thought Photograph Folks See Fabulous Had Look Course Aerial Go Wonder Africa African Happened Ask Notice Village Now Why
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 web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy. Ron Eglash
Success Democracy Take Advantage Power First Google Web Properties Ecological Entrepreneurship Take Advantage Developmental Because Were Sustainability Success Is Ethical Reason
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs. Ron Eglash
Science High-Tech Geometry Traditional Surprisingly Often Common African While Patterns Used Designs

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