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The crocheted coral reef pays homage to the beauty of science and mathematics and is a tribute to the crafting skills of about 3,000 women. It was inspired by the threat of global warming to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and is on display in the Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin until June 11th

A beautiful crocheted coral reef on display in Dublin is a response to the threat of global warming and a fine example of living maths and a great work of art, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON

MOTHER NATURE loves maths. Principles of mathematics underlie everything from the way a leaf grows to the structure of a nautilus shell.

But it turns out that nature also likes geometries that are so strange that mathematicians spent 2,000 years trying to prove they couldn’t possibly exist. Geometries so odd, that it is only within the past decade that a mathematician figured out a way to represent that geometric world in three-dimensional form.

Perhaps it is no fluke that the mathematician who did so is a woman, and the form that she found for making this geometry literally palpable, is the mostly female craft of crochet....

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