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Science writer Margaret Wertheim’s Hyperbolic Crocheted Reef Project demonstrates a happy congruence between the mathematical phenomena modeled perfectly by the creatures of the reef and the traditionally feminine craft of crocheting, which is uniquely suited to modeling hyperbolic space. It draws attention to the plight of environmentally distressed coral reefs through a tactile, Technicolor display of a kind of higher mathematics that was previously almost impossible to picture.
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 5:30-6:30pm
Ebling Symposium Center (Room 1220)
Microbial Sciences Building, 1550 Linden Drive, Madison, WI
Free and open to the public
sponsored by the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection, the Department of Design Studies, and the Arts Institute’s Year of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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