Friday, July 2, 2010

Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral (and crochet)

Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.

1 Comments:

At December 15, 2010 at 3:51 PM , Blogger Unknown said...

This is amazingly beautiful and intriguing! It makes me want to crochet again, and study mathematics. Who knew?

 

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