Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Roman Mobius Mosaics, A Myth??? Maybe

Still looking for some graphic of the supposed 3rd century Roman Mosaics that include a Mobius strip... and found another reference to them in :

Mathland: from flatland to hypersurfaces
By Michele Emmer


[click on the graphics to enlarge]


Then I found this from :


Classical topology and combinatorial group theory
By John Stillwell



So... somebody has it wrong....
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1 comment:

  1. r. r. vlorbik11 September 2009 at 20:29

    trust stillwell. i love that book.
    haven't actually *seen* it since
    the early nineties, mind you.

    i did a lecture in chuck livingston's
    geometric topology class that i
    copped outright from stillwell.

    the left- and right- hand
    trefoils aren't ambient isotopic.

    stuff i used to know, volume MCMXCII.

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