We at Universal Curve often get asked about our name and where it came from. Those of you with a mathematical background might have heard of the famous mathematician Karl Menger, who wrote this theorem in a 1968 publication: "Every compact curve in a metric space can be mapped to a subset of a so-called universal curve such that the compact curve is a member of IR^3."

At this point you're probably thinking to yourself, "So what the heck does that mean?" Essentially Menger defined a shape that is, in a manner of speaking, recursive. Each iteration of recursion causes the shape to lose some volume and gain some surface area. If recursed infinitely, the remaining object would have infinite surface area, but no internal volume! If this paradox piques your interest, search for "Menger Sponge" (the other, not-so-catchy name for The Universal Curve).