Dr. Daina Taimina’s ‘Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes’

Posted by Danielle | Mar 27, 2010 | Beyond Knitting, Crochet Hacks | 0 |

This year’s Diagram Prize for oddest book title goes to Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes, by mathematician Dr. Daina Taimina.

A hyberbolic plane is a “two-dimensional quadratic space with a non-singular isotropic quadratic form”. This:

Crochet model of hyperbolic plane by Daina Taimina

Visit Dr. Daina Taimina online.

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