Coral reefs can be crocheted. The atmosphere can be knit. And a stop sign can be folded into a pair of pants. Welcome to the intersection of math and handicraft. Unexpectedly, handicraft in general, ...

In the basement of the North Branch Library in Nashville, Tenn., on a recent Saturday, you could hear alternating murmurs of excitement and exasperation over the soft clicking of needles. A small ...

One snowy January day, I asked a classroom of college students to tell me the first word that came to mind when they thought about mathematics. The top two words were “calculation” and “equation.” ...

Higher mathematics are hard. Yarn is soft. And in most cases, these two things would remain separated — after all, how could concepts like a pursuit curve or circle ratios possibly relate to making a ...

KENOSHA - Few people look at a ball of yarn and a pair of knitting needles and think, well, here's a math problem waiting to be solved. Sara Jensen does. Before she was a mathematician, before she ...