http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/03/27/odd-title-crochet.html
LONDON (AP) — A book charting the frontier between handicrafts and geometry on Friday won Britain’s quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year’s oddest book title.
Crocheting Adventures with Hyperbolic Planes by mathematician Daina Taimina beat runners-up What Kind of Bean is This Chihuahua? and Collectible Spoons of the Third Reich.
Prize overseer Horace Bent said "the public proclivity towards non-Euclidian needlework" proved too strong for the competition.
"I’ve never won any prizes before. This is my first prize and it’s wonderful," said Taimina, an adjunct associate professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y..
The winning book’s title may be odd but the subject is serious. Taimina uses crochet to create hyperbolic planes, surfaces on which lines curve away from each other instead of running parallel, as on a flat plane, or converging, as on a sphere.
Previous champions include Bombproof Your Horse and Living With Crazy Buttocks.
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