Ron Eglash: African fractals, in buildings and braids

http://www.ted.com "I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof." That is how Ron Eglash greeted many African families he met while researching the fractal patterns hed noticed in villages across the continent.

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[iArsalan]

So let me get this straight. To know anything about myself as an African is to be "bias[ed] for a particular race" but would I be biased if all I had were European interpretations on my profile page?

What's tragic about this is that you're allowing your own bias to blind you from deeper truths. These African systems present fractals and mathematics at the very core of their cosmology and religion.

Besides, what evidence do you have to the contrary or to back your indictment of the speaker?

[goyavesETmangues]

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White RACISTS are crying their eyes out while watching this video

Bwahahahahahahaha

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Keep trolling, it makes you look even more pathetic and desperate ^__^

Typical symptoms of someone who cannot exist or have a strong sense of self without putting others down and feel threatening every time this false sense of superiority is crushed by hard evidences like the facts exposed in this video ^__^

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[XConYoungBlood]

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[Alcavexus]

@godofthisshit europe was still running around barbaric like wild animals when the rest of the wolrd was doing shit

[makeiteasyable]

lol

[KwatakyeHonorSystems]

@TutankhAusar

LMAO. Obviously they did NOT. Or maybe they did and went into an endless feedback loop constructed of high grade stupid.

[ljames418]

INTERESTING . . . HOWEVER, FRACTALS IN NATURE RECUR (TURTLES, FISH SCALES, ETC.) THAT THE PEOPLES WHO INHABIT THE AFRICAN CONTINENT ARE CLOSER TO THE NATURAL STATE OF MAN . . . CAN NOT BE DENIED. THAT EUROPEANS ARE SO FAR REMOVED FROM THEIR NATURAL STATE THAT THEY HAVE LOST ALL SENSE AND UNDERSTANDING OF PRIMAL CULTURAL REALITY. FRACTALS ARE NEW TO EUROPE . . . THE "NEW WORLD" WAS NEW TO EUROPE . . . WHEREAS EVERYONE ELSE WAS LIVING IT UP THERE . . . FRACTALLY . . . FRACIN' A!!!!! YA HEARD!!!

[HybridD91]

@IAMME000 It isn't much of a god if one was to use another name for something that already has a name but to each their own.

[tomintroy]

Ron Eglash,, what other wonders did you discover about these geniouse societies? I once was primitive in my thinking but I now too am a believer! Some people think that the stench of open latrines is a sign of primitiveness but I believe they are constructing crapples (crap-fractles) and the stench is actually a sophisticated homing system that makes our atomic clock synchronized GPS navigation look positively barbaric. Stench homing never needs power, and can be built at a moments notice.

[tomintroy]

Please tell me this is a joke. How did this retard get grant money to waste on this stupidity?!? These dung chuckers couldn't even figure out how to make circles with a string and a stick, make straight lines with a string and two sticks and make right angles with... just two pieces of string but this moron thinks he sees fractals in this chaotic mess.

[truselfcrew]

white people have problem with this video because they have been lied to about africans and european history... Black are the parent race of people.... there is no birth record!