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Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes
Daina Taimina
AK Peters
April 2009
On Sale: March 26, 2009
200 pages ISBN: 1568814526 EAN: 9781568814520 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
This richly illustrated book discusses non-Euclidean
geometry and the hyperbolic plane in an accessible way. The
author provides instructions for how to crochet models of
the hyperbolic plane, pseudosphere, and catenoid/helicoids.
With this knowledge, the reader has a hands-on tool for
learning the properties of the hyperbolic plane and
negative curvature. The author also explores geometry and
its historical connections with art, architecture,
navigation, and motion, as well as the history of crochet,
which provides a context for the significance of a physical
model of a mathematical concept that has plagued
mathematicians for centuries.
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