On a Thursday night in Ithaca, New York, Daina Taimina, an ebullient blond mathematician at Cornell University, sits at her kitchen table with her husband, David Henderson, a Cornell professor of ...

Some people looking at the crocheted objects on Daina Taimina's kitchen table would see funky modern art. Others would see advanced geometry. The curvy creations, made of yarn, are actually both. And ...

The crinkled edges of a lettuce leaf curve and expand in a shape that has perplexed mathematicians for centuries. Those curves -- an example of a high-level geometry concept called the hyperbolic ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This model of the hyperbolic plane ...

Last week, mathematician and artist Daina Taimina shared her latest creation on Twitter. It's a model of a surface called the Klein quartic. Isn't it cute? So what is it? The Klein quartic surface is ...

It first catches your eye as a riot of color at the back of the hall, visible through a gap between a couple of other exhibits. You investigate, and it reveals itself as a wondrous mishmash of ...

The gallery space at Cambridge University's Kettle's Yard is packed with math whizzes and avid knitters, all here to see Daina Taimina's work: misshapen neon masses of crocheted wool that look like ...

I recently heard the inspiring story of Dr. Daina Taimina. Taimina is a Latvian mathematician who teaches geometry at Cornell. She solved a problem mathematicians have been trying to solve for ...