an amazing lecture on fractals!
There are tears streaming down my cheeks. Why? No one yelled at me, I didn't get a bad grade, Jonghyun didn't do another cover of an X-Japan song, and I certainly did not read an Akame fic where Kame was trapped in the body of a puppy (smaps if you are reading this, I still get a little choked up thinking about that fic ngl ;~; fml). No, I just found an amazing lecture by Ron Eglash on fractals and fractal patterns in indigenous African architecture and culture.
It's 17 minutes long but SO worth watching, even if you aren't interested in math. Just, WOW. This is easily one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I would love to learn more about this. How amazing is it that villagers in Africa, even children, are already understanding the beauty of fractals in life, and have been for centuries? My mind is BLOWN. I will have to rewatch this many many times (and hopefully not cry over it in the future...) because it's SUCH a great lecture.
I even emailed it to one of my math professors for Discrete Dynamical Systems lol. We haven't done much on fractals in that class but I hope he shows it to the class or something! I kind of want to email it to my Graph Theory prof too because of the Eulerian walks part but idk if that would be lame :|
... I like how I said that like the rest of this post WASN'T lame. FML.
I'm... still crying btw. like. UGH. People who dismiss math immediately or say they hate it, they don't even know what they're missing out on or pushing away. Like Ron Eglash says, math is everywhere, even in the lines on your palms. You'd be an idiot not to at the very least RESPECT one of the things that is innately a part of you whether you like it or not. Some people can't do math, they get bad grades in math classes, fine. There's nothing wrong with that - I mean, I suck at philosophy. But that doesn't mean they can't appreciate it, that doesn't mean they have to hate it or dismiss it outright. Just like philosophy is something that terrifies me and leaves me in awe simultaneously, math is a Beautiful Beautiful thing and I wish more people would realize that.
It's 17 minutes long but SO worth watching, even if you aren't interested in math. Just, WOW. This is easily one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I would love to learn more about this. How amazing is it that villagers in Africa, even children, are already understanding the beauty of fractals in life, and have been for centuries? My mind is BLOWN. I will have to rewatch this many many times (and hopefully not cry over it in the future...) because it's SUCH a great lecture.
I even emailed it to one of my math professors for Discrete Dynamical Systems lol. We haven't done much on fractals in that class but I hope he shows it to the class or something! I kind of want to email it to my Graph Theory prof too because of the Eulerian walks part but idk if that would be lame :|
... I like how I said that like the rest of this post WASN'T lame. FML.
I'm... still crying btw. like. UGH. People who dismiss math immediately or say they hate it, they don't even know what they're missing out on or pushing away. Like Ron Eglash says, math is everywhere, even in the lines on your palms. You'd be an idiot not to at the very least RESPECT one of the things that is innately a part of you whether you like it or not. Some people can't do math, they get bad grades in math classes, fine. There's nothing wrong with that - I mean, I suck at philosophy. But that doesn't mean they can't appreciate it, that doesn't mean they have to hate it or dismiss it outright. Just like philosophy is something that terrifies me and leaves me in awe simultaneously, math is a Beautiful Beautiful thing and I wish more people would realize that.