02+-+Modeling+Hyperbolic+Space

Now that we have established that hyperbolic space exists, we need to know what it looks like.

Mathematicians have been struggling to model this space, but paper models do not hold up, and are not quite right.

In 1997, mathematician Daina Taimina of Columbia University developed the first usable depiction of the hyperbolic plane, using, of all thingsm, crochet. In this 2004 interview, she talks about hyperbolic geometry and how she started making the models.