How one physicist is unraveling the mathematics of knitting

Physicist Elisabetta Matsumoto is an avid knitter and has been since taking up the hobby as a child. Matsumoto, now at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, is teasing out the mathematical rules that dictate how stitches impart such unique properties to fabrics.

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