Greg Egan on Nostr: What makes a surface a Möbius strip is its topology: how it connects up with itself. ...
What makes a surface a Möbius strip is its topology: how it connects up with itself. But every actual strip in 3-dimensional space also has a specific geometry.
This Möbius strip is formed from a piece of the hyperbolic plane, so it has constant negative Gaussian curvature.
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