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HN likes it for Cliff Stoll's infectious passion for topology, and it gets linked in threads about him and about Mobius strips.
Numberphile interviews Cliff Stoll about Klein bottles, the one-sided surfaces with no inside or outside. Stoll explains them with characteristic enthusiasm and shows off his collection.
“This guys passion for Mobius Strips is infectious.” (HN, 2017)
If anyone is talking about Mobius Strips then Cliff Stoll MUST be mentioned. This guys passion for Mobius Strips is infectious. [this video] Also he was one of the first system admins to actually catch a hacker who was using his server in Germany in 1989. [link]
Cliff Stoll's infectious passion for Mobius strips
Yes, in the video I'm talking about [this video] he says that a bootle has an edge (~3'40). A sphere does not have an "inner surface", it has just one surface. So does a potato. If you go from sphere to potato to bowl, when does an edge appear and does it have to appear, is my question.
Video claims a bottle has an edge, prompting a topology question
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