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13 Responses to “One for the maths nerds”

1. 1 Ambigulous
   May 2nd, 2008 at 9:21 am

   Thanks!!
   Is that “pearl 1, plain 1, or “plane x, pearl y” ??

2. 2 DeeCee
   May 2nd, 2008 at 9:34 am

   Or (to the tune of British Grenadiers)…

   ….Ceilings that are hyperbolic
   These are for the alcoholic
   Lying on the floor.

   Vodka for the arty. Gin to make you hearty
   Lemonade was only made for drinking when your mother’s at the party.
   Steer very clear of homemade beer And anything that isn’t label’d clear
   You have nothing else to feee - ar …

   UQ Songbook for the Regatta “Aquatic Carnival” “(chunder buckets provided free)”[sic] 1960

   Cheez, fancy all those GenY young things binge drinking, eh?

   PS Why can’t I remember what I did with the TV control stick Wed night?

   Honi soit qui mal y pense

3. 3 mick
   May 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 am

   Woulda been cooler if it was all like topologicalish….

4. 4 David
   May 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 am

   That’s pretty cool. There’s also someone marketing Klein bottle beanies [link] if you’re interested.

5. 5 Darryl Rosin
   May 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 am

   ‘One side fits all’ Hee.

   The best resource for Maths and Fibre arts (mostly knitting) is Sarah-marie Belcastro’s Toroidal Snark: [link]

6. 6 Peter Wood
   May 2nd, 2008 at 12:25 pm

   If my memory serves me correctly the topologicalishness arises from the creatures that have hyperbolic space as a universal cover are different to the creatures that have flat, Euclidean space as a universal cover.

7. 7 zoot
   May 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pm

   Minor correction DeeCee, I believe the words should be sung to the tune of “Men of Harlech”. Otherwise, thanks for the memories

8. 8 su
   May 2nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm

   Mick, Tigtog made a fabulous joke on CIB, calling a particularly self-defeating and tortological argument a “Klein bottle” argument.

   3d renderings of Klein bottles look rather like the bottles given to boys in hospital so that they can take a leak. Never go to a hospital that inhabits more than 3 dimensions.

9. 9 FDB
   May 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm

   “a particularly self-defeating and tortological argument”

   They argue about cakes at CIB?

10. 10 su
    May 2nd, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    I never argue with cakes but if they are self-defeating so much the better, saves me the bother of hunting ‘em down with bow and arrow.

11. 11 su
    May 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    (Oh spelling mistake- now I get it D’Uh)

12. 12 Rayedish
    May 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 pm

    David #4. Great link. I would have liked it if it were the knitting patterns for the klein bottle beanie instead of the beanies themselves being for sale. Cos although I’m not interested in crocheting a hyperbolic plane I would like to give knitting a klein bottle a go. ( I once attended a lecture where I was told that you can weave your own klein bottle using a single thread) Although that was a cool ad especially if you want a beanie hand knitted by a team that includes some grannies and an ex librarian!

13. 13 Rayedish
    May 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    ooh ooh Darryl’s post #5 has a pattern, great!