26 April 2009

Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math that links coral, crochet and hyperbolic geometry

[Wertheim's 18min talk at TED]
" And I onced asked the mathematicians why it was that mathematicians thought this structure was possible when sea slugs had been doing it since the Silurian age?"

"Kindergarten for Grownups!"

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