Daina Taimiņa
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 70 |
Date of birth | August 19,1954 |
Zodiac sign | Leo |
Books | Knitting adventures with hyperbolic planes |
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes | |
Current partner | David W. Henderson |
Awards | Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year |
Born | Riga |
Latvia | |
Education | University of Latvia |
Riga State Gymnasium No. 1 | |
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ID | 1025415 |
Daina Taimiņa Life story
Daina Taimiņa is a Latvian mathematician, retired adjunct associate professor of mathematics at Cornell University, known for discovering a groundbreaking way of modelling hyperbolic planes by crocheting objects to illustrate hyperbolic space and innovative use of them teaching geometry.