Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes

Name: Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes
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ISBN: 9781568814520

ISBN-10: 1568814526

ISBN-13: 9781568814520

Edition: 2009

Authors: Daina Taimina

List price: $42.95

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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.

Book details

List price: $42.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: A K Peters, Limited
Publication date: 2/23/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 10.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English