Friday 26 March 2010

Crocheting Adventures With Hyperbolic Planes - Diagram Prize Winner 2009


Hooray!

A well deserved win for Daina Taimina and her lovely book covering the representation of non-Euclidian geometry with crochet and knitting.

Get your copy here:

Blackwell Online (UK based, the company I work for)
A K Peters (US based publishers of the book)


Or (ideally), put the keyboard down, go outside and buy a copy in your favourite local bookshop. :)

If you're Edinburgh based we'll have copies on sale at our Edinburgh Science Festival bookshop in the Informatics Forum on Potterow.

2 comments:

  1. Daina Taimina26 March 2010 at 21:43

    thanks for your enthusiasm, Geoff, and for great support!

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  2. Geoff13 April 2010 at 22:46

    You're more than welcome, it's easy to get enthusiastic about a creative and fun book that touches on my personal area of interest! It's been widely recognised, and with some enthusiasm, by many of the delegates at various maths and computing conferences going on in the area too :)

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