African Fractals

The author of the book “African Fractals”, ethno mathematician Ron Eglash examines the way many African villages are purposely laid out to form perfect fractals, using patterns underpinning architecture, art, and design.

“When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive.  It never occured to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t discovered yet…”

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