What exactly is a straight line? The rooms we inhabit, the grid-like layout of our streets and the shelves where we store our belongings all speak to us in straight lines. Visit the Institute for Figuring’s online exhibit, “Hyperbolic Space,” as it examines our human-created world of rectilinearity.
For thousands of years mathematicians believed there were just two types of geometry, the plane and the sphere. But another more aberrant structure lurks beneath the surface of Euclid’s laws. See how the “Hyperbolic Space” exhibit illuminates this through the art of crochet.
The Institute for Figuring is dedicated to the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science, mathematics and the technical arts.
WHEN: all day & all night
WHERE: The Institute for Figuring, Los Angeles, CA
WEBSITE: www.theiff.org/oexhibits/
ADDITIONAL INFO: The online exhibit is ongoing
