Mobius Strip Fun

Wolfram Mobius World



Ants by M.C. Escher



The mobius sculpture at the FermiLab in Illinois.


In geometry, we have moved onto further discussions of multi-dimensional space. We have been using this great book called "The Shape of Space : How to visualize surfaces and three-dimensional manifolds" by Jeffrey Weeks. Klein bottles and other lovely diagrams fill the pages. Q and her dad even read it like a bed time story some nights.

One easy and hands-on way to observing/manipulating dimensions is by making a mobius strip and then playing with it, cutting it and see what happens to it’s topology.

Here are a few sites that can be helpful in your experimentation with this sort of topology.

Mobius Strip sites:

Mobius in the playground

Mobius at Zoom.com

Georgia Tech Mobius site

BBC mobius article


Wolfram Mathematics Encyclopedia - VERY WORTH YOUR TIME TO VISIT HERE

Klein Bottles:

Wolfram MathWorld Klein Bottle
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