Klein bottle

English thumb|200px|A Klein bottle immersed in three-dimensional space. Etymology en de Kleinsche Flasche, en Felix Klein German mathematician 1849 1925 1, who first described such a surface in 1882. Noun en topology The closed manifold obtained by identifying the boundary components of the annulus so that the resultant surface is nonorientable. en 1981 w:William Irwin Thompson The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture Rider/Hutchinson & Co. London 222 At this level Atman and Brahman are like a Klein bottle or a Möbius strip: there is no edge where one can say that this is Atman, but this is Brahman. A physical bottle, usually of blown glass, made to resemble said shape. Translations closed surface Czech: cs Kleinova láhev f Finnish: fi Kleinin pullo French: fr bouteille de Klein f German: de Kleinsche Flasche f Hungarian: hu Klein kancsó Italian: it bottiglia di Klein f, it otre di Klein m Japanese: ja クラインの壺 Kurain no tsubo Korean: ko ^클라인 병 Polish: pl butelka Kleina f Portuguese: pt garrafa de Klein f Russian: ru буты́лка Клейна f Spanish: es botella de Klein f Further reading en Surfaces Manifolds