2026 Bridges Conference Math + Fashion
Moira Chas
Designers
Moira Chas
Professor of Mathematics
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, New York, USA
Biography
I was born with restless hands and a mind that tends to strong obsessions. My hands help me understand mathematical ideas by making objects. Using these ma(th)nipulatives, I explain these ideas to whoever wants to listen, and enjoy equally the questions and the aha moments that sparkle. I am sequentially monogamous in my obsessions: I went from origami to knitting, from knitting to crochet, and from crochet to looping wire. Looping wire, a technique used by the sculptor Ruth Asawa, is a wonderful medium to understand how surfaces can be immersed in our three-dimensional world.
Looks
Photo by Clara Sullivan
Another way to immerse a Klein bottle in our world
Photo by Clara Sullivan
Photo by Clara Sullivan
About the look
Another Klein bottle necklace
Craft wire
2026
Klein bottle necklace
Craft Wire
2026
Klein bottle earings
Craff wire
2026