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Rotating Immortality - a Möbius Band in the form of a Trefoil Knot by John Robinson with graphics by Ronnie Brown and Cara Quinton. Borrowed from `Symbolic Sculptures and Mathematics'.

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Some comments by Frank Adams

All his writings are enlivened by witty remarks that he also used as a lecturer to keep the attention of his audience. Some of these remarks have become classics, like his description of a spectral sequence, one of the machineries of algebraic topology to compute invariants by a complicated iterative algebraic procedure:

• ``an Elizabethan drama, full of action, in which the business of each character is to kill at least one other character, so that at the end of the play one has the stage strewn with corpses and only one actor left alive (namely the one to speak the last few lines).''

In case the machinery of algebraic topology ever seemed too daunting, he would comfort the reader with the words

• ``let us be glad we don't work in algebraic geometry.''

The cyclist's guide to the Klein bottle

Taken from the SLIDE Klein Bottle Project by Nerius Landys and Shad Roundy

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Rotating Immortality by John Robinson with graphics by Nick Mee of Virtual Image. Borrowed from `Symbolic Sculptures and Mathematics'