Ron Eglash: African Math Bibliography



Publications

Eglash, R. African Fractals: modern computing and indigenous design. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1999.

Eglash, R. "Fractals in African Settlement Architecture." Complexity vol 4/no2 nov-dec 1998.

Eglash, R. "Geometric algorithms in Mangbetu design." Mathematics Teacher, pp. 376-381, v. 91 n. 5 May 1998.

Eglash, R. "Bamana sand divination: recursion in ethnomathematics." American Anthropologist, v99 n1, p. 112-122, March 1997.

Eglash, R. "When math worlds collide: intention and invention in ethnomathematics." Science, Technology and Human Values , vol 22, no 1, pp. 79-97, Winter 1997.

Eglash, R. "The African heritage of Benjamin Banneker." Social Studies of Science, April 1997.

Eglash, R., Diatta, C., Badiane, N. "Fractal structure in jola material culture." Ekistics pp. 367-371, vol 61 no. 368/369, sept-dec 1994.

Eglash, R. "Fractal Geometry in African Material Culture." Symmetry: Culture and Science. Vol 6-1, pp 174-177, 1995.

Eglash, R. "Scaling hexagons in a Bassari initiation mask." Mathematics Teacher, pp. 618-620, October 1995.

Eglash, R. "African influences in cybernetics." in The Cyborg Handbook, Chris Gray (ed), NY: Routledge 1995a.

Eglash, R. and Broadwell, P. "Fractal geometry in traditional african architecture" Dynamics Newsletter, June 1989.

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