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Barry Phipps tells Plus how he bridges the gap between the arts and sciences as an exhibition curator.

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June 2008
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In the first of a new series 'Imaging Maths', Plus takes an illustrated tour of an extraordinary geometric construction: the Klein bottle.

Tags: Klein bottle : topology : visualisation : projective plane : surface : orientability : one-sided surface : two-sided surface : torus : mathematical models : helicoidal surface : geodesic