Shenandoah Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference
at James Madison University, October 23, 2010
Closing Speaker
Cliff Stoll, Acme Klein Bottle Company
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"Low Dimensional Topology for Fun and Profit" -or how to extract money from the 4th dimension... Abstract: For over ten years, Acme Klein Bottle has provided nonorientable manifolds to math folk. Like much of mathematics, it's marginally profitable, but endlessly entertaining. While thousands of computer models of the Klein Bottle grace the Internet, physical models are rarely built. Using Pyrex glass and a torch, we supply the finite but unbounded demand for one-sided, R3 immersed, zero-volume, borosilicate Riemannian manifolds. So how do you make a Klein Bottle? Come to Cliff's talk and find out! |