threadedtheorems
threadedtheorems
Threaded Theorems
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Mathematical stitching 🪡A PhD student hoping to inspire crafty folks to engage with maths - all designs have a free pattern on my website!
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threadedtheorems · 20 days ago
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Gender equality? Broke. Gender bijective homomorphism? Woke
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threadedtheorems · 21 days ago
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Fiber arts is just Math in sheep's clothing
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threadedtheorems · 22 days ago
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Meet the spectre 👻 the first-ever true aperiodic monotile. For ages, no one knew if a single shape could tile the plane without ever repeating. This tiling uses just one tile, no reflections, has no patterns, and fills space perfectly
[Free embroidery pattern]
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threadedtheorems · 23 days ago
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not to sound corny but the textile arts make me feel connected to the world around me. it's so intentional and deliberate and when i sit and do it, i think a lot about how many other women that came before me used to do it, how many hands have used the same supplies i am using, and how many other people might be doing the same thing as me all across the world right now
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threadedtheorems · 24 days ago
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Zoom in on some tiling magic ✨ This Penrose star is part of an an aperiodic tiling made from just kites and darts—no repeating pattern, no matter how far you zoom out. Every piece pops up again somewhere, just never in the same arrangement. It’s like symmetry got bored and decided to be interesting instead
[Free embroidery pattern]
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threadedtheorems · 25 days ago
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One thing I love about studying math is that when you ask any fellow student or prof why they went into math we all say it’s because we find it beautiful. It’s so diametrically opposed to the opinion that everyone else has about math that it feels like some kind of virus that infects you and makes you unable to study anything else
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threadedtheorems · 26 days ago
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Close-up of the chaos! These swirling stitches follow the Lorenz system’s rules. Even the tiniest change in starting point decides how many times we loop each lobe. One stitch to the left? Whole new journey
[Free embroidery pattern]
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threadedtheorems · 27 days ago
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One should always have at least 2 craft projects going. That way, when one of them is messed up and misbehaving, you can switch to another, and let the first one sit there and think about what it's done.
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threadedtheorems · 28 days ago
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A Penrose star in all its glory 🌟 Built from just kites and darts, it looks symmetrical, but it’s secretly rebellious - the big picture of the Penrose tiling refuses to fall into a pattern.
[Free embroidery pattern]
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threadedtheorems · 29 days ago
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Why do mathematicians love pi so much? It's related to some shape, but they like that shape because it explains why pi shows up? Sounds like circular reasoning to me
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threadedtheorems · 29 days ago
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The Lorenz system describes how a point’s position in 3D space changes over time, showing chaotic behaviour. The resulting path forms butterfly-shaped lobes. Small changes in the starting point lead to vastly different trajectories around the lobes. This concept is linked to the "butterfly effect" in chaos theory. Free embroidery pattern
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threadedtheorems · 1 month ago
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HAPPY PI DAY!
For this year's celebratory pattern I wanted to tackle a dream project of mine: stitching a functional unit circle. The French knots (all 100 of them!) around the lower circle represent the coordinates of each point (sans radicals and negative signs), and the upper circle shows how sine and cosine can be found by following a point around a circle's circumference.
[pattern here] [previous pi day patterns here]
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threadedtheorems · 1 month ago
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threadedtheorems · 1 month ago
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Sneak peak of my next project 👀
This is also my first time testing out printing my design on transfer paper so fingers crossed.
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threadedtheorems · 1 month ago
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As far as I'm concerned, all math is girl math. Knowing the ways to make numbers reveal their secrets for you and make them show you numbers that aren't right there is witchraft, and witchraft is women's work.
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threadedtheorems · 1 month ago
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WIP of colouring a star from the Penrose tiling.
This tiling is aperiodic, so it never repeats on a macro scale, but if you look at small sections like this star, you will be able to find them an infinite number of times throughout the pattern. They just don't join together in a regular way.
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threadedtheorems · 1 month ago
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Why have a regular star when you can have a mathematical star? ✨
This star is a section of the Penrose tiling, an aperiodic tiling that can cover the plane without having a repeating pattern. In the tiling, small symmetric areas like this star appear, but they don’t join together in a uniform way.
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