Geometry, intuition, visualization and inventions Discoveries made by intuition are a mystery to others and half understood by the discoverer. Philip Emeagwali interviewed by Reuben Abati for The Nigerian Guardian . You talk of a relationship between the construction of bridges, terraces and houses and fields and gardens, and computers. It is still not clear. My discoveries and inventions are made largely by geometrical intuition and visualization.
Discoveries made by intuition are a mystery to others and half understood by the discoverer.
The subject of geometry was invented by black Africans living in the River Nile Valley as a means for measuring and dividing the flooded fertile farm fields and gardens. Since bridges, terraces and houses are geometrical objects, I use them to sharpen by intuition.