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While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.
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Traditional
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Surprisingly
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Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.
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Infinity
African
Invent
Mathematicians
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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.
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Tools
African
Best New Way
Constructing
Identities
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I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks what was going on - why they had made it that way.
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Scaling
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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.
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Branches
Geometry
Lines
Sand
Everywhere
Within
Flowers
Cycle
Drawn
Human
Even
Lung
Plants
See
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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.
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Enormous
Rock Music
Terrain
African
Cover
Cultural
Music Rock More
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Singular
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My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.
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Architecture
Assumption
Bottom
Indigenous
Organized
Reasoning
Turns
Tends
Though
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Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of European fractal geometry that are missing from the African version.
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Components
Labor
Missing
Plenty
Transcendental
African
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Revelation
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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.
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Fabulous
Folks
Photograph
Village
Aerial
Africa
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Notice
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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.
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Architecture
Disorganized
Form
Mathematics
Primitive
Africa
African
Considered
Discovered
Europeans
Occurred
Thus
Using
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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.
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Advantage
Democracy
Developmental
Ecological
Entrepreneurship
Ethical
Sustainability
Properties
Success Is
Take Advantage
Web
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If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that now - and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right? Your body is covered with fractals.
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Covered
Relax
Your Body
Ahead
Finger
Hand
Meet
Thumb
Wrinkle
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I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.
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Architecture
Design
Collecting
Combination
Geometric
Native
Native American
Pacific
Symmetry
Aerial
African
Photographs
Circular
Societies
Native Americans
Themes
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