R. Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller was an enginer, mathemitican, and an architect.
Twice expelled from Harvard University, buisiness disasters and the death of his
four year old daughter brought him close to suicide. He decided to devote his
life to proving that technology could save the world from itsself, providing it
is properly used.
He examined a vertorial system of geometry,
Energetic-Synergetic geometry, based on the tetrahedron which provides maximum
strength with inimum structure. This led to his patent of a geodesic dome in
1947, a building the strength of which need only increase as the log of its
size. Fuller was a research professor at Carbondale, Southern Illinios
University, from 1959 to 1968. In 1968 he became a university professor and
retired in 1975.
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