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avad ([personal profile] avad) wrote2007-01-14 10:11 pm

Crafty Geometry!

Two great tastes that taste great together. Complex mathematics and crochet!:)

"Geometry teachers usually try to explain the hyperbolic plane via flat models that wildly distort its geometry—making lines look like semicircles, for instance. How, Taimina wondered, could she give her students a feel for hyperbolic geometry's counterintuitive properties? While attending a workshop, the answer came to her: Crochet a piece of hyperbolic fabric...."

tori, Lorenz manifolds, hyperbolic planes and Yarn? ohmY

(thanks [livejournal.com profile] mummimamma)!

[identity profile] vaneramos.livejournal.com 2007-01-15 02:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Neato! I don't have enough patience for math anymore to read the whole article, but what an interesting idea.

[identity profile] avad.livejournal.com 2007-01-15 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
take a look at THIS that snotrocket just comment-linked to!!!
knit coral reef (http://www.theiff.org/gallery/index.html) to raise awareness of the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef by global warming!