In which there is knitting. Or possibly crocheting

[jadesfire]

For anyone who was wondering what I was talking about yesterday when I encouraged knitters to listen to the Royal Society talk (link as soon as it appears, btw) the quickest way to find out is to Google for "hyperbolic knitting". Although "hyperbolic crochet" will also get lots of hits. I'm not entirely clear (not having read all the articles in detail) which craft is considered the best for truly representing the maths…

Anyone who's read Time in a Bottle by astolat or Proof by maverick4oz and pollitt has got a head start on this, but contrary to what John and Rodney think in those stories, apparently knitting is the best way to represent hyperbolic space.

No, I haven't finally lost my marbles. See links below. If someone would care to write me SGA knitting-fic, I'd be over the moon… [mad_jaks, I haven't forgotten your puppy-fic, but I'm on a course this afternoon, so it will have to go up a bit later on, sorry :S]

Hyperbolic Crochet (The Times)
Hyperbolic Crochet and Science funding (blog)
Woolly thinking (The Guardian)
New Math Tricks (MSNBC science)
How crochet solved an age-old maths problem (The Times)
Hyperbolic Space – crochet models (The Institute for Figuring)

Also, today's link of randomness:

Herding Cats (this is an ad, but an ad of genius)

Comments

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

The lint roller made me giggle so much! It's just wonderful!

I love the maths stuff when someone explains it to me in words of one syllable, but I really don't have the background to understand most of it. Still, I love listening to experts talk interestingly about their subject, even if I only get one word in four...

And yeah, I saw that handicraft project. Just... Why? Why would you do that?