Last week, mathematician and artist Daina Taimina shared her latest creation on Twitter. It’s a model of a surface called the Klein quartic. Isn’t it cute?
So what is it? The Klein quartic surface is a 2-dimensional object with 3 holes that has a lot of symmetries. In fact, it has as many symmetries as a 3-holed surface can possibly have: 168 that preserve the orientation of the surface and 168 that involve flipping the surface inside out.
Read the full post at Roots of Unity.
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