12 posts tagged “mathematics”
According to wikipedia, April is the mathematics awareness month. I'm faszinated. Shall I crochet another hyperbolic plane in honour of mathematics? Or write down that pattern for the kaleidozyklus to post in the crochet by numbers blog? Or just be really attentive if I have to do any calculations?
To balance my last bitchy post, now something about a book I'm exited about:.
This is a book I did not buy yet, but a friend gave it to me to read.
It is not hard to read and you can skip the more mathematical
explanations and just start playing, but one of the authors is a
mathematician.
It is about Escher's artwork and how to make geometrical froms with patterns that fit together. A Kaleidozycle is a way to fold a torus out of a plane from paper: Another way to construct it, is to make a chain of tetraeders. You can turn it inside out over and over without breaking it. This is a crocheted version:
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This is a book I bought recently:
I bought it - of course - because there was a mathematical topic and crochet in the title. The first sentence reads:
"The first thing that you need to know is that I'm a mathphobe." This almost made me wish I had not bought it. The reason for the "almost": I'd love it if there was a huge market for mathematics in crafts-books. So I'm happy to spend money on books in that direction. The reason for the wish: So, it is socially chic not to like maths and to be really bad with numbers and stuff. Great. Wake up! This is as chic as not being able to read and write. It can happen and you can still live a happy life, but it is a disability to have no mind for math, not something to be proud of!
I finished this sunday morning, while the yeast was rising for breakfast rolls:
Close-up photos for quornflour:
Show us some holiday decorations.
Show us something you're working on.
Submitted by Sephy.
I finished the Lorenz manifold! Here is a first photo:
Now I'll have to go and find the material for mounting it...
I might have to buy even one more ball of yarn of red and bordeaux. Using less colours makes it less yarn-intensive.
After spending the trainride home switching markers and crocheting some
more (closely watched by two teenagers who were trying to decide
whether I was crocheting ("But she has a crochet hook. I know that that
is a crochet hook!") or not and if so, what I was making - and never
getting the idea of just asking) I started hating the green. Not the
colour as such, but I did not like the way it stood out on the rest.
So, I started a new one. This is how far I got with the old:
This is how far I got currently (row 32 finished):
That is more than 600 stitches per
row, now. And about 12.800 more
to go in the last fifteen rows.
So, probably these are rather boring posts, but I want to be able to
cheer me up looking at early stages. Now, I passed the Doppelstäbchen
(treble, double treble; AE and BE differ there) -part and am back to
normal Stäbchen which are much quicker to crochet. I'm close to 200
stitches per round. And will end up with more than a thousand.
