michael

Fun show. Amazing, quick calculations. And a glimpse on memory techniques when he "stores" two numbers while calculating a third to sum them up.

African Fractals: Modern Computing and Indigenous Design author: Ron Eglash asin: 0813526140

Ethno-mathematician is certainly a strange sounding profession. This talk from Ron Eglash is absolutely fascinating. He shows how intuition and tradition lead to fractal designs exhibiting robust and excellent qualities. While mathematics is not used in the process, Ron discovers the mathematical concepts after the fact.