Article ID: CBB001320841

Adventures in Mathematical Knitting (2013)

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In 1971, Miles Reid of the University of Warwick published a paper on knitting surfaces. In the mid-1990s, a technique for knitting Möbius bands from Reid's paper was reproduced and spread via the then-new Internet. (Nonmathematician knitters also created patterns for Möbius bands; one, designed to be worn as a scarf, was created by Elizabeth Zimmerman in 1989.) Reid's pattern made its way to me somehow, and it became the inspiration for a new design for the Klein bottle. Math knitting has caught on a bit more since then, and many new patterns are available. Some of these are included in two volumes I coedited with Carolyn Yackel: Making Mathematics with Needlework (2007) and Crafting by Concepts (2011). [from article]

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Description On knitting mathematical shapes like the Möbius band and the Klein bottle.


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Authors & Contributors
Fix, Adam
Seoane-Sepúlveda, J. B.
Leitão, Henrique
Enflo, P. H.
Thomas Prévéraud
Moslehian, M. S.
Concepts
Mathematics
Crafts and craftspeople
Science and culture
Geometry
History of science, as a discipline
Science and society
Time Periods
20th century, late
Early modern
19th century
17th century
16th century
Renaissance
Places
Spain
Portugal
England
France
Europe
Atlantic world
Institutions
National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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