Boys Surface (Bryant and Kusner) + redirect page
| Boy's Surface |
Author
Paul Nylander
Field
Geometry
Link
Boy's Surface
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Title
Boy's Surface
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Boy Surface.jpeg
Description
While trying to prove that an immersion (a … While trying to prove that an immersion (a special representation) of the projective plane did not exist, German mathematician Werner Boy discovered Boy’s Surface in 1901. Boy’s Surface is an immersion of the projective plane in three-dimensional space. This object is a single-sided surface with no edges. t is a single-sided surface with no edges.
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