Merry Andrew wrote:Yup. The scholarly discipline which deals with these subjects is topology. Topology is the only branch of mathematics which uses no numbers.
Not necessarily true--geometry isn't numerical, nor are many forms of astract algebra (boolian immediately springs to mind), string and game theory. Mathematics seems to be a study of patterns. Numbers (counting, integers, rational, real, and imaginary) are only a small part of the generality that composes the study of the math.
BTW a mobius strip is a two dimensional singularity in three dimensional space. It was exploited in the 60's in four and eight track tapes (the acid helped) and (Felix)
http://www.kleinbottle.com/klein_bottle_hats.htm Klein bottles make great hats .
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