Classroom Activities and Resources

• The Shape of Space homepage
• Where to buy the The Shape of Space video
• Jeff Weeks' fantastic Geometry Games website, including
  • Torus and Klein Bottle Games
  • Kali, which lets you draw symmetrical patterns based on any of the 17 tiling groups.
  • KaleidoTile:Explore tessellations of the sphere, Euclidean plane, and hyperbolic plane while creating colorful works of art.
• Other Cool Geometry and Topology Links
• A wealth of good ideas about Symmetry and the Shape of Space by Chaim Goodman-Strauss
• Instructions for making paper and crochet hyperbolic planes
• Make your own tilings of Hyperbolic Space
• A lecture on the Geometry of the Universe
• In Space, Do All Roads Lead Home? by Janna Levin

Images From the Talk

• A. Square on Mobius Band
• Transparency Cube Template
• Tiling of Hyperbolic Space with Triangles and Heptagons
• Angels and Devils in the Disk Model of Hyperbolic Space
• Lizards in the Upper Half Plane Model of Hyperbolic Space
• Icosahedron in Hyperbolic 3-Space
• Template for Making Hyperbolic Plane from Heptagons
• Template for Making Hyperbolic Plane from Equilateral Triangles

Measuring Space

• BOOMERANG Project
• Cosmology, Science of the Universe lecture notes, including a description of Ways to Measure the Geometry of Space by J.C. Evans