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1 total messages Started by Roger Firestone Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:46

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Author: Roger Firestone
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:46

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A mathematician named Klein
Thought the Moebius strip was divine.
  He said, "If you glue
  The edges of two,
You get a weird bottle like mine."
 
A burlecue dancer, a pip,
Named Virginia, could peel in a zip.
  But she read science fiction
  And died of constriction
Attempting a Moebius strip.
 
(The second may be credited to Clifton Fadiman's _Fantasia Mathematica_, which
is where I first saw it.  I have no idea of attribution for the first.)
 
Roger M. Firestone ("I'm not a mathematician/computer scientist, I'm an
unemployed actor.")

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