Knitting numbers
Last week's issue of Science News Online featured an article about mathematicians who are using knitting and crocheting to depict mathematically complex surfaces.
The images in this article are stunning, though I have to admit that I skimmed the text--math is not my forte. (It's actually in the category of "things that hurt my brain.")
I've more or less gotten the hang of the Moebius scarf (I completed my second one right before Christmas, in time to give as a gift to my mother-in-law...but unfortunately I neglected to get a photo of it before she took it home) and I understand how a Klein bottle works (but haven't dared try to knit one yet), but this other stuff is way beyond me. The article mentions that a book of patterns is due out this spring, though, so maybe that will include explanations that I can understand.
The images in this article are stunning, though I have to admit that I skimmed the text--math is not my forte. (It's actually in the category of "things that hurt my brain.")
I've more or less gotten the hang of the Moebius scarf (I completed my second one right before Christmas, in time to give as a gift to my mother-in-law...but unfortunately I neglected to get a photo of it before she took it home) and I understand how a Klein bottle works (but haven't dared try to knit one yet), but this other stuff is way beyond me. The article mentions that a book of patterns is due out this spring, though, so maybe that will include explanations that I can understand.
2 Comments:
Wow, math IS cool!
Funny -- my father emailed that to me yesterday, too! Great minds think alike, I guess! :) Glad you commented on it, though, because I would probably have never gotten around to it....
Happy New Year, while I'm here! Hope 2007 is an excellent one for you. :)
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