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'Way-in way-out vessel' equivalent to two Klein bottles, one inverted, sealed together back-to-back. When cut it forms two pairs of single twist Mobius strips.
A single surface model made by Alan Bennett in Bedford, 1995. This 'way-in-way-out vessel' is equivalent to two Klein bottles, one inverted, sealed together back-to-back. When cut it forms two pairs of single twist Mobius strips. A Klein bottle is a surface which has no edges, no outside or inside and cannot be properly constructed in three dimensions.
Details
- Category:
- Mathematics
- Object Number:
- 1996-543
- Materials:
- glass
- Measurements:
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overall: 60 mm 45 mm, 0.036 kg
- type:
- single surface model
- credit:
- Bennett, Alan
