[PassedOut]

As a math major in college I liked to draw images to help me visualize the concepts I learned. My wife, Constance, also a math major in college, liked to knit. She gave me the link to this article to emphasize the superiority of her approach: New math tricks: knitting and crocheting.

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Together, Yackel and Belcastro have co-edited a new book "Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects." In it, they use the knitting of a baby’s pants to show how, in certain types of mathematics, an octagon can be folded into a two-holed donut. Using their math, if one crocheted a stop sign, it could be folded into a pair of pants.

FWIW, I think it's interesting to watch Constance knit socks, going around the bend to make a perfect heel. Even that seems, to me, a non-trivial exercise.

[slothy]

Darn, this 'thread' didnt have people in stitches huh ?

[FrancesHinden]

Yesterday I saw the hyperbolic crochet reef in the Royal Festival Hall. It's quite cute.

See http://www.theiff.org/reef/index.html