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Daina Taimiņa (born August 19, 1954) [1] is a Latvian mathematician, retired adjunct associate professor of mathematics at Cornell University, known for developing a way of modeling hyperbolic geometry with crocheted objects.
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes is a book on crochet and hyperbolic geometry by Daina Taimiņa. It was published in 2009 by A K Peters, with a 2018 second edition by CRC Press. It was published in 2009 by A K Peters, with a 2018 second edition by CRC Press.
The crocheting of hyperbolic planes has been popularized by the Institute For Figuring; a book by Daina Taimina on the subject, Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes, won the 2009 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year. [5]
Consistently cold temperatures froze a waterfall in Ithaca, New York, video taken on January 30 shows.Daina Taimina posted footage of the frozen Ithaca Falls to Twitter.The National Weather ...
Daina Taimina (born 1954), mathematician, acclaimed writings on mathematics; Velta Toma (1912–1999), poet; V. Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (born 1937), President of ...
Taimina, Daina: 1954– Textiles: Crochets of hyperbolic space [55] Thorsteinn, Einar: 1942–2015: Architecture: Mathematically-inspired sculpture and architecture with polyhedral, spherical shapes and tensile structures [56] [57] Uccello, Paolo: 1397–1475: Fine art: Innovative use of perspective grid, objects as mathematical solids (e.g ...
2012: Latvian mathematician Daina Taimina became the first woman to win the Euler Book Prize, for her 2009 book Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes.
[14] [15] Wertheim’s use of crochet in the piece is largely due to Daina Taimina's discovery of the potential manifestation of the Impossible Hyperbolic Structure within the confines of the medium. The piece pays homage to the female mathematician who used a traditionally women's medium to redefine the course of the study as a whole.