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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.