Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes

Oh yes, I’ve finally got my hands on Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes. Unlike Crafting by Concepts and  Making Mathematics with Needlework this does book doesn’t include lesson ideas. However, it is an award winner…

Again, it is a book that thrills me for it’s combination of two of my favourite things in life – crafting and Mathematics. What’s even better, these projects seem achievable even for a beginner like me. There are also interesting sections considering the use of hyperbolic planes in Science, Medicine, Computer Science, Music and Art.

I’m not going to go into too much detail but let’s see how many of these index items you recognise…

absolute geometry	annuli	asymptotic	catenary
catenoid	crochet	curvature	Erlangen program
exponential growth	geodesics	helicoid	hyperbolic geometry
hyperbolic plane	ideal triangle	Klein bottle	knitting
local intrinsic geometry	manifold	minimal surface	Mobius strip
mosaics	naalebinding	non-Euclidean geometry	orbifold
Parallel Postulate	patters	Poincare model	pseudosphere
radius	Riemann surface	simply connected	spherical geometry
Strands	sum of interior angles	torus	tractrix

 

That gives you a good idea of what’s involved and it really is sad how excited that list makes me!