• Margaret Wertheim
• Founder, Institute for Figuring

• Speaking at TED2009
• February 2009
• Long Beach, CA

Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral: Margaret Wertheim leads a project to re-create the creatures of the coral reefs using a crochet technique invented by a mathematician -- celebrating the amazements of the reef, and deep-diving into the hyperbolic geometry underlying coral creation.