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Daina Taimina is a Latvian
Latvians

Latvians , the indigenous Balts people of Latvia, occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia....
 mathematician
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 at Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
 who crochet
Crochet

Crochet is a process of creating fabric from yarn or thread using a crochet hook. The word is derived from the Middle French word croc or croche, meaning hook. Crocheting, similar to knitting, consists of pulling loops of yarn through other loops....
s objects to illustrate hyperbolic space
Hyperbolic space

In mathematics, hyperbolic n-space, denoted Hn, is the maximally symmetric, simply connected, n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with constant sectional curvature −1....
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She came up with the idea in an idle moment during a camping trip in 1997, based on paper models designed by geometer William Thurston
William Thurston

William Paul Thurston is an United States mathematician. He is a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he was awarded the Fields medal for the depth and originality of his contributions to mathematics....
. Colleagues were intrigued that her creations embodied concepts they had been teaching for years but never actually seen.






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Daina Taimina
Daina Taimina is a Latvian
Latvians

Latvians , the indigenous Balts people of Latvia, occasionally refer to themselves by the ancient name of Latvji, which may have originated from the word Latve which is a name of the river that presumably flowed through what is now eastern Latvia....
 mathematician
Mathematician

A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and/or research is the field of mathematics....
 at Cornell University
Cornell University

Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....
 who crochet
Crochet

Crochet is a process of creating fabric from yarn or thread using a crochet hook. The word is derived from the Middle French word croc or croche, meaning hook. Crocheting, similar to knitting, consists of pulling loops of yarn through other loops....
s objects to illustrate hyperbolic space
Hyperbolic space

In mathematics, hyperbolic n-space, denoted Hn, is the maximally symmetric, simply connected, n-dimensional Riemannian manifold with constant sectional curvature −1....
.

She came up with the idea in an idle moment during a camping trip in 1997, based on paper models designed by geometer William Thurston
William Thurston

William Paul Thurston is an United States mathematician. He is a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he was awarded the Fields medal for the depth and originality of his contributions to mathematics....
. Colleagues were intrigued that her creations embodied concepts they had been teaching for years but never actually seen. She was invited, together with her husband David Henderson, a math professor also at Cornell, to give a presentation at a Cornell workshop.

An article about her in New Scientist
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 was spotted by an official of the Institute For Figuring
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, an educational organisation based in Los Angeles
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 and she was invited to speak about her creations there to an audience which included artists and movie producers. In 2005 the Institute For Figuring curated an exhibition of her work at Machine Project gallery, which was the subject of a piece in the Los Angeles Times
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Her work has also been published in several other periodicals, such as 'Knit Theory' in Discover magazine.

Now her work makes up part of an exhibition entitled "Not The Knitting You Know" at Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space, an art gallery in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

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    Cornell University located in Ithaca, New York, USA, is a private university with four Statutory college. Its two medical campuses are in New York City and Education City, Qatar....


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