community
directory
books
authors
images
encyclopedia

Email:
Password:
Register

Knowledgerush Search

 

Google
  Web knowledgerush


Search for images of Boy's surface


Message boards   Post comment

Boy's surface

Boy's surface is an immersion of the real projective plane in 3-dimensional space found by Werner Boy. Unlike the Roman surface and the cross-cap, it has no singularities (pinch points), but it does self-intersect.

To make a Boy's surface:

  1. Start with a sphere. Remove a cap.
  2. Attach one end of each of three strips to alternate sixths of the edge left by removing the cap.
  3. Bend each strip and attach the other end of each strip to the sixth opposite the first end, so that the inside of the sphere at one end is connected to the outside at the other. Make the strips skirt the middle rather than go through it.
  4. Join the loose edges of the strips. The joins intersect the strips.

Boy's surface is discussed (and illustrated) in Jean-Pierre Petit's Le Topologicon.

Referenced By

Embedding | Klein bottle | List of geometric topology topics | List of mathematical topics | List of mathematical topics (A-C) | List of mathematics topics | Projective plane | Real projective plane

 

Compose Your Message

Your Email Address or Pen Name (optional):
Subject:
Your Message:
 

 

 

 

 

 

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Boy's surface".

 

Contact UsPrivacy Statement & Terms of Use

 
Copyright © 1999-2003 Knowledgerush.com. All rights reserved.