Moira Chas

Statement

I work in low dimensional topology, and gravitate to mathematics that can be expressed in pictures. I have been trying to materialize math ideas with crochet for quite some time and recently came up with many ideas, among these, the pieces “Secret Hexagons” and “Tietze’s Dream”. I really enjoy using my pieces to explain mathematics to people, no matter what their level of mathematical maturity.

Artworks

Both pieces address the question What is the maximum number of regions a surface can be divided into, so that each pair of regions share a length of their border (vertices don’t count)? In the torus, the maximum number is seven.

Both pieces address the question What is the maximum number of regions a surface can be divided into, so that each pair of regions share a length of their border (vertices don’t count)? In the “two holed” torus, the maximum number is eight.