In this video, Margaret Wertheim of the Institute for Figuring talks about the Coral Reef in crochet, hyperbolic geometry, and the use and fun of doing hands-on math & science.
Apparently, mathematicians had long thought that you couldn’t build (I guess: embed in our normal euclidean three dimensions) a hyperbolic surface, even though they only had to look at a sea slug or even the lettuce on their plates to know better.
Filed under: Biology, Crochet, Hands-on math & science, Math
