{"id":3000,"date":"2020-10-01T14:25:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T22:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2022-10-31T04:54:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T12:54:20","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-know-mathematics-ucsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/what-does-it-mean-to-know-mathematics-ucsb\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to Know Mathematics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3005\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-01-at-3.28.32-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3005\" class=\"wp-image-3005\" src=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-01-at-3.28.32-PM-1024x410.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-01-at-3.28.32-PM-1024x410.png 1024w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-01-at-3.28.32-PM-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-01-at-3.28.32-PM-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-10-01-at-3.28.32-PM.png 1087w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Media Arts and Technology lab at UCSB.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IFF director Margaret Wertheim will present a talk at the Media Arts and Technology\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seminar.mat.ucsb.edu\">Seminar Series<\/a> at the <strong>University of California, Santa Cruz.<\/strong> The title of the talk is <em>Crafting Mathematics: Or Does a Seaslug Understand Hyperbolic Geometry?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Date and Time:<\/strong><\/em> Monday October 19, 2020 \u2013 1pm, on Zoom. Sign up for the event\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seminar.mat.ucsb.edu\">here<\/a>\u00a0at MAT\/UCSB.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Talk\u00a0Abstract:<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>What does it mean to know mathematics? In the frilled forms of corals and other crenelated marine organisms we witness structures that mathematicians long thought to be impossible. Defying the rules of Euclidean geometry, such \u201chyperbolic\u201d surfaces are now known to exist in a wide variety of living and physical systems. For the past 15 years, science writer and artist Margaret Wertheim has been working on a project to make sculptural representations of coral reefs using the craft of crochet, thus marrying mathematics with art, science, and handiwork. Her <em>Crochet Coral Reef<\/em> project \u2013 which has been widely exhibited around the world, including at the Venice Biennale and the Smithsonian \u2013 is at once a novel enterprise in radical craft practice and a global experiment in applied geometry that makes a case for embodied mathematical knowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IFF director Margaret Wertheim will present a talk at the Media Arts and Technology\u00a0Seminar Series at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The title of the talk is Crafting Mathematics: Or Does a Seaslug Understand Hyperbolic Geometry? Date and Time: Monday October 19, 2020 \u2013 1pm, on Zoom. Sign up for the event\u00a0here\u00a0at MAT\/UCSB. Talk\u00a0Abstract:\u00a0What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}