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Gifted Needlework (was Knitting and Crocheting)
Why is it that knitting or crocheting or cross-stitch... is often a pastime
of gifted children and adults?
- Crocheting
the Hyperbolic Plane
- No pattern, but an interview with David Henderson and Daina Taimina...
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Crocheting
the Lorenz Manifold by Hinke M Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf
- The Lorenz
attractor is the best known image of a chaotic or strange attractor. We are
concerned here with its close cousin, the two-dimensional stable manifold of the
origin of the Lorenz system, which we call the Lorenz manifold for short. This
surface organizes the dynamics in the three-dimensional phase space of the
Lorenz system... Read about it in
Mathematicians crochet chaos (requires Adobe Reader)
- Dr.
Montville's Double Helix Seaman Scarf
- This scarf pattern was commissioned by Dr. Thomas Montville, a professor at
Rutgers University (and also the photo model). Dr. Montville kindly agreed to
serve on my doctoral thesis committee in return...
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Hat Math by Susan in POP Goes Antartica
- One hobby has taken Palmer
Station by storm this year: knitting. In the last few months, almost half of the
station residents have learned how to knit. The knitters have used lots of
ingenuity in designing styles and patterns...
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Making
Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects edited by Sarah-marie
Belcastro and Carolyn Yackel
- Investigate the interplay between mathematics and needlework, with stories
of what happens when mathematicians turn to their hobbies but still continue to
think about mathematics. Great math, carefully explained, with simple
knitting projects. Read KFinn's review for Hoagies' Page on Amazon...
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Möbius
Scarf (also available in a
crochet pattern)
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A never-ending scarf...
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Quidditch Scarf
by the girl from auntie
- The mathematical derivation for the scarf pattern to
emulate characters in a a certain popular children's book, or it's corresponding
movies...
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Professor
Lets Her Fingers Do the Talking by Michelle York, The New York Times
(requires free membership)
- Some people looking at the crocheted objects
on Daina Taimina's kitchen table would see funky modern art. Others would see
advanced geometry. The curvy creations, made of yarn, are actually both...
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Real Men Knit
by Dawn Goldsmith
- The knitted six-inch, perfect square
boasted a delightful geometric pattern beginning with a knitted center diamond...
"You made this?" I asked. "What did you use for yarn?
For needles? Where did you get the pattern?" He shrugged, more interested
in finding a snack than discussing the potholder. "I found a cone of string at
work, and that's what I used for yarn."
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sarah-marie's
mathematical knitting pages
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A never-ending scarf...
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String and
Air
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Knitting is a medium that provides endless depths for exploration and discovery.
The dimensions are fiber, structure, texture, and color. The results are
as varied as imagination...
- Wooly Thoughts
- We are designers of mathematical knitwear. Or perhaps we are mathematical
designers of knitwear. Whatever you want to call us, many of our designs are
simple geometric shapes combined to make elaborate patterns. We are
mathematicians at heart and so most of what we do has a mathematical basis.
This may not always be obvious and it doesn't explain the cartoons and
word-play which often creep in...
Last updated
May 06, 2008
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