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I graduated from a faculty of mathematics, so don't know if there are
other geeks who will find this amusing, but I came across this webpage:
http://www.kleinbottle.com/whats_a_klein_bottle.htm
it describes the Klein bottle:
Take a rectangle and join one pair of opposite sides -- you'll now
have a cylinder. Now join the other pair of sides with a half-twist.
That last step isn't possible in our universe, sad to say. A true
Klein Bottle requires 4-dimensions because the surface has to pass
through itself without a hole.
It's closed and non-orientable, so a symbol on its surface can be
slid around on it and reappear backwards at the same place.You
can't do this trick on a sphere, doughnut, or pet ferret --
they're orientable.
the base webpage is pretty amusing as well.
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[Posted in FML issue 3775]
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