Crocheting and geometry
You might ask, what do these two subjects have to do with each other? Most people probably think that math and crocheting don't have anything in common (well, besides the fact you count your stiches and such). However, the video below shows you a STRIKING connection between crocheting and hyperbolic geometry which has ONLY been found fairly recently. Crochet model of hyperbolic plane by Daina Taimina I found it surprising that mathematicians had thought for years that it wouldn't be POSSIBLE to build a physical model for hyperbolic geometry. Then... the mathematician Daina Taimina found that CROCHETING was the perfect model for it! The essence of the hyperbolic space can be implemented with knitting or crochet simply by increasing the number of stitches in each row. As you increase, the surface naturally begins to ruffle and crenellate. So... what is hyperbolic geometry? You can draw several lines that are parallel to a given line and that go through a ...