Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgements 

Part I
1 Introduction to fractal geometry
2 Fractals in African settlement architecture
3 Fractals in cross-cultural comparison
4 Intention and invention in design

Part II
5 Geometric algorithms
6 Scaling
7 Numeric systems
8  Recursion
9 Infinity
10 Complexity

Part III
11 Theoretical frameworks in cultural studies of knowledge
12 The politics of African fractals
13 Fractals in the European history of mathematics
14 Futures of African fractals

Appendix 
Notes
References
Index

About the Author

Ron Eglash recieved a bachelor of science degree in cybernetics and his master of science in systems engineering, and he worked at National Semiconductor as a human factors engineer. He returned to the University of California for a doctorate on the cultural analysis of science and technology from the Board of Studies in History in Conciousness, and after graduating recieved a Fulbright scholarship for research in ethnomathematics at the University of Dakar in Senegal. He is currently an assistant professor at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute.