OUR ARCHIVES : October 2009

My Hyperbolic Crochet Dialect

I am trying really hard to understand the geometrical language even though my brain is not wired like that. I thought I had understood it, but I seem to have developed my very own dialect.
I am working a ruffle scarf and thought a model of the Hyperbolic Plane would be ideal for it, but I [...]

The Hyperbolic Language

I’m a linguist. I am not a mathematician. Not at all. But somehow I have managed to grasp the principle behind the manifestation of hyperbolic shapes – that’s geometry!!! I put it down to the fact that I understand yarn and crochet hooks really well and with a good dollop of help from the very [...]