CRAFTING MATHEMATICS: OR DOES A SEA SLUG UNDERSTAND HYPERBOLIC GEOMETRY
MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2020 / 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (PDT) - ONLINE

Post-event coverage (Coral Reefs and Climate Change: Learning Through Crochet by Anabel Costa) can be read here, in our News & Features section.

For the past 15 years, science writer and artist Margaret Wertheim has been working on a project to make sculptural representations of coral reefs using crochet. In the frilled forms of corals and other crenelated marine organisms we witness structures that professional mathematicians long thought to be impossible. Defying the rules of Euclidean geometry, such “hyperbolic” surfaces are now known to exist in a wide variety of living and physical systems. Wertheim’s Crochet Coral Reef – which has been widely exhibited around the world, including at the Venice Biennale – is at once a novel enterprise in radical craft practice and a global experiment in applied geometry which makes a case for embodied mathematical knowing.

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