I can’t resist passing on this, from last week’s Big Issue.
Actress Elaine Cassidy likes knitting. She says,
I love maths, and knitting is just maths, really.
Now mathematicians have thought about weaving, but not (as far as I know) about knitting. Are we missing a trick there?
I think string theorists do a lot of wool-gathering in this skein, er, vein.
You’ve not heard of the harmonious colouring problem in Fair Isle?
See here: http://www.toroidalsnark.net/mathknit.html
Igor Faradjev liked (and maybe still likes) knitting.