Re: I Think I Just Broke a Glass into an Infinite Number of Pieces

On Tue, 20 May 2008 13:21:00 +0100, Frederick Williams wrote:

> mimus wrote:
>
>> I think Klein bottles cheat with that penetration business-- tearing is
a
>> no-no in algebraic topology, 
> 
> That's true: there is no such thing as tearing in algebraic geometry.

I guess when you try to stuff one too many dimensions into something you
get a tear.

Something new to brood about.

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 11 or maybe 12

mp 10

mhm 29x13

Given a manifold M with a submanifold N, N can be knotted in M
if there exists an embedding of N in M which is not isotopic to N.
Traditional knots form the case where N = S1 and M = S3.

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