Sculpting Mapping Cylinders: Seamless Crochet of Topological Surfaces
Shiying Dong

Proceedings of Bridges 2023: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 559–566
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Abstract

In this workshop we will learn how to crochet topologically nontrivial surfaces by building appropriate ribbon graphs from foundation chains. This technique perfectly matches the concept of a mapping cylinder in algebraic topology. Examples include surfaces whose boundaries are torus knots/links and regular polylinks.

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