[net.math] Mobius bands and Klein bottles

dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (10/03/83)

A burleque dancer, a pip
Named Virginia could peel in a zip,
   But she read Science Fiction
   And died of Constriction
Attempting a Moebius Strip!

    -- From Fantasia Mathematica, to the best of my recollection

paulh@tektronix.UUCP (Paul Hoefling) (10/05/83)

Here are a couple of good limericks I picked up quite some time ago.
Sorry I can't quote the source of them, but I don't remember it.

A mathematician confided
That a Mobius band is one-sided,
	And you'll get quite a laugh
	If you cut one in half,
For it stays in one piece when divided.


A mathematician named Klein
Thought the Mobius band was divine.
	Said he, "If you glue
	The edges of two,
You'll get a weird bottle like mine."


Happy computing...

Paul Hoefling
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