In recent years,
mathematicians such as Osinga have started knitting and crocheting
concrete physical models of hard-to-visualize mathematical objects. One
mathematician's crocheted models of a counterintuitive shape called a
hyperbolic plane are enabling her students and fellow mathematicians to
gain new insight into startling properties. Other mathematicians have
knitted or crocheted fractal objects, surfaces that have no inside or
outside, and shapes whose patterns display mathematical theorems.
Knitting Mathematics (Boing Boing)
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Maths is getting more interesting,
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See also: Eros ex Math by Peter Miller where images are created entirely from mathematical algorithms and play on our interpretations. (via Lost Garden)
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