Klein bottle, 1995

Klein bottle, 1995 Klein bottle, 1995

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Sphere with three interlinked loops, the equivalent of three interconnected Klein. bottles, which cannot be cut in practice, but in theory would produce three interlinked pairs of single-twist Mobius strips.

A single surface model made by Alan Bennett in Bedford, 1995. It consists of a sphere with three interlinked loops the equivalent of three interconnected Klein bottles. A Klein bottle has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot be properly constructed in three dimensions.

Details

Category:
Mathematics
Object Number:
1996-544
Materials:
glass
Measurements:
overall: 80 mm x 110 mm x 105 mm,0 .076 kg
type:
single surface model
credit:
Bennett, Alan