Die kleinsche Flasche ist keine riemannsche Fläche

(Or in other words, the Klein bottle

is not a Riemann surface…)

I bought this little marvel in the shop of the excellent Giessen Mathematikum math museum. My two favorite exhibits were this playful shadow (a sculpture of Larry Kagan)

and a rather thought-provoking physical illustration of what is a “one in a million chance”

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Kowalski

I am a professor of mathematics at ETH Zürich since 2008.