Check out the work of Daina Taimina on Google. She has become very well-known for her discovery that the craft of crochet could be used to create the surface known as a hyperbolic plane. The geometry we learned in high school does not work the same way on a hyperbolic surface. The image at the right is of a piece she graciously made for me. We spent several hours at her home, talking about this surface, and what it might represent as social metaphor.
At a recent Princeton lecture, Daina's work was used by freelance geometer Jeff Weeks, to talk about the possible shape of the universe.
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