The mathematics of taffy pullers

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Authors Jean-Luc Thiffeault

Publication date 6 July 2018

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00152

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General applied mathematics (00A69) Kinematics of mechanisms and robots (70B15) Dynamical systems involving homeomorphisms and diffeomorphisms of planes and surfaces (37E30)

Abstract: We describe a number of devices for pulling candy, called taffy pullers,that are related to pseudo-Anosov maps of punctured spheres. Though the mathematical connection has long been known for the two most common taffy puller models, we unearth a rich variety of early designs from the patent literature, and introduce a new one.

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