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  <title><![CDATA[Making Mathematics with Needlework: Ten Papers and Ten Projects]]></title>
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  <default_description>Beautifully illustrated, and with complete patterns and the mathematics behind each project, this book successfully connects the worlds of mathematics and the fiber arts. Each chapter covers a different mathematical paper and corresponding needlework project and includes mathematical explanations, needlework instructions, educational material, and specific projects to demonstrate the principles discussed.</default_description>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 21 21:08:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is deadly serious. If you're interested in Mandelbrot sets, Möbius strips, Diophantine equations, or you've ever wondered how ssk k2tog k2 yo translates into a x/y axis, you've found your new favorite book. Making Mathematics with Needlework is set up like a textbook, each chapter starts ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16053272">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was nerdy and cool.  Ten projects are described, but each chapter also has a substantial math section (a lot of graph theory, symmetry, and topology, most of which I was not able to understand) and some suggestions for classroom applications.  Quilting, blackwork, cross-stitch, crochet, and kni...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71478293">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 06 09:06:17 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought there would be more knitting. I am going to reread this tonight so I can make some Torus. Hmm. Knitting...Why don't have time to knit AND READ!!!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[(Read over a longer period of time, and finished on the listed date.)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I knit socks I'm fascinated by the mathematics of it - cast on 100%, knit the heel flap on 50%, pick up 25% for the gusset, decrease back to 100%, decrease down to 30% for the toe and kitchener. So much of knitting uses math (gauge!), and Carolyn Yackel explains the math with all types of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35919472">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have zero needlework experience and didn't take math past calculus-- I love this book. I had no idea that playing with paper Mobius bands could be so much fun. Let your sweater be a system with variants.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have higher level math on my needles!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just honestly the best way to put me in a nutshell. ]]></body>
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