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QUESTION Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral | TED Talk

Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.

#Geometry #Crochet
skado 9 Feb 14
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Thanks for the heads up. I'm ordering this book:
Margaret Wertheim
Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War

Should be interesting. The coral project is cool! Thanks for posting.

I just started reading that book last night!
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Level 8

Very cool!

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Level 9

So interesting! Crochet! Who would have thought? Thanks!

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Level 7

Way above my education level...but cool...thanks for sharing

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Calcium carbonate provides such beautiful structures. Minor amounts of other compounds make up the greater variation in form, while the living exostructure provides the color.

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