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June 17, 2008
Sarah-Marie Belcastro , MS’93, PhD’97, and Carolyn Yackel, MS’94, PhD’98, editors
Making Mathematics With Needlework, AK Peters, 2008.
The book: Mathematical craftwork has become extremely popular, and mathematicians and crafters alike are fascinated by the relationship between their crafts. The focus of this book, written for mathematicians, needle workers and teachers of mathematics, is on the relationship between mathematics and the fiber arts (including knitting, crocheting, cross-stitch and quilting). Each chapter starts with an overview of the mathematics and the needlework at a level understandable to both mathematicians and needle workers, followed by more technical sections discussing the mathematics, how to introduce the mathematics in the classroom through needlework and how to make the needlework project, including patterns and instructions.
The author: Sarah-Marie Belcastro co-directs the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics, a six-week intensive summer enrichment program for talented high school students. She is currently a visiting assistant professor and the associate director of the Center for Women in Mathematics at Smith College. Carolyn Yackel is associate professor of mathematics at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. She has developed a general education course in mathematics through fiber arts and regularly teaches for the Interdisciplinary Studies program.
Web sites: www.toroidalsnark.net (Belcastro) and www.mercer.edu/math/faculty/yackel/yackel.htm (Yackel)
Posted by lingjiex at June 17, 2008 11:43 AM