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[[File:Buckminster_Fuller_as_a_young_man.jpg|thumb|Buckminster Fuller as a young man.]]'''Richard Buckminster Fuller''' (/ˈfʊlər/; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" house/car, ephemeralization, synergetic, and "tensegrity". He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. | [[File:Buckminster_Fuller_as_a_young_man.jpg|thumb|Buckminster Fuller as a young man.]]'''Richard Buckminster Fuller''' (/ˈfʊlər/; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" house/car, ephemeralization, synergetic, and "tensegrity". He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. | ||
== Bucky Fuller birthday tribute== | |||
[[File:Bucky Fuller birthday tribute.jpg|thumb|"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." —R. Buckminster Fuller.]] | |||
[[Bucky Fuller birthday tribute]] | |||
== Appraisal == | == Appraisal == | ||
"Fuller ... has better claim to the title of polymath than any man since [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|Leonardo]]." | "Fuller ... has better claim to the title of polymath than any man since [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|Leonardo]]." ([https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller Source]) | ||
- Robert Anton Wilson, in ''Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups'' (1998), p. 189. | |||
== In the News == | == In the News == | ||
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* [[Mathematician]] | * [[Mathematician]] | ||
* [[Mathematics]] | * [[Mathematics]] | ||
* [[Bucky Fuller birthday tribute]] | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
Latest revision as of 08:06, 12 July 2020
Richard Buckminster Fuller (/ˈfʊlər/; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist. Fuller published more than 30 books, coining or popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" house/car, ephemeralization, synergetic, and "tensegrity". He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres.
Bucky Fuller birthday tribute
Appraisal
"Fuller ... has better claim to the title of polymath than any man since Leonardo." (Source)
- Robert Anton Wilson, in Everything Is Under Control : Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups (1998), p. 189.
In the News
Fiction cross-reference
- Crimes against mathematical constants
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Mathematician
- Mathematics
- Bucky Fuller birthday tribute
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Buckminster Fuller @ Wikipedia