Making math with yarn
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- sgwhites
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Knitting and crochet have helped provide answers to mathematical problems and offered new insight into the geometry of the natural world. So, what was that about knitting being a useless hobby, again?
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- Green, Earth and Science, Science
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- Green, Earth and Science, Science, Math, 2 more
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vessela84
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could i take the fourier transform of my sweater? if so, how many sweaters would i need to re-knit to better approximate the original sweater function?
- 3 years ago
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vessela84
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fountaingoats
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I'm a knitter/crocheter who majored in math, so I love this stuff!
This crocheted lorenz manifold is totally sweet: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2004/12/lorenz_manifold.html
And unrelated, but still totally awesome: knit a womb! http://knitty.com/ISSUEwinter04/PATTwomb.html
- 3 years ago
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fountaingoats
