Margaret Wertheim

Margaret Wertheim (born 1958 in Brisbane, Australia) is a science journalist and author of books on the cultural history of physics.

In her books, she describes the role of theoretical physics in the cultural landscape of modern society. In the first book Pythagoras ' Trousers ( Trousers of Pythagoras ), it deals with the history of the relationship between physics and religion. In the second book, The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace ( The mother-of- gates of cyberspace ) it records the history of the scientific way of thinking about the space from Dante to the Internet. The third book in the trilogy, Physics on the Fringe (Physics at the edge ), considers the idiosyncratic world of "outsider physicists ", which set up like Jim Carter with no or little scientific training their own alternative theories of the universe.

As a journalist, Wertheim published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times and the Cabinet magazine (magazine). From 2001 to 2005 she wrote the scientific Quark Soup column for LA Weekly. In 2006 she was awarded the journalism of the American Institute of Biological Sciences and in 2004 she attended as a journalist for the National Science Foundation to Antarctica. Their work was published by Oliver Sacks as part of the Best American Science Writing 2003.

Hyperbolic crochet coral reef ( Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef )

2003 founded the twin sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim in Los Angeles, the Institute For Figuring that promotes public understanding of the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics. The sisters were too scientific world, the curators of exhibitions and mathematical topics in art galleries and museums including the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Art Center College of Design, the Machine Project, the Museum of Jurassic Technology, the Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin and the Smithsonian 's National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. involved in the project of the hyperbolic crochet coral reef ( hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef ) was attended by more than 5000 volunteers, among others, from New York, London, Riga, Cape Town and the German island of Foehr, by parts of the reef have crocheted for exhibitions. By 2011, more than three million visitors have viewed these exhibitions. The hyperbolic crochet coral reef is an intersection of mathematics, science, manual labor, environmental and community work.

• Pythagoras ' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars (1995 )
• The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet (1999)
• A Field Guide to Hyperbolic Space (2005)
• A Field Guide to the Business Card Menger Sponge (2006)
• Physics on the Fringe: Smoke Rings, Circlons and Alternative Theories of Everything (2011)