Knitting Hyperbolic Space

Professor Lets Her Fingers Do the Talking - New York Times: "A year after she created the models, she and her husband gave a talk about them to mathematicians at a workshop at Cornell. 'The second day, everyone had gone to Jo-Ann fabrics, and had yarn and crochet hooks,' said Dr. Taimina. 'And these are math professors.'"

I love it when worlds collide like this. Although the article totally fails to even bother trying to explain what hyperbolic space is beyond being something that ruffled lettuce leaves, sea slugs and cancer cells have in common, it's intriguing. Maybe I'll have to restart my knitting habit this winter.