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Group On The Möbius Ring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Michael Holt
Michael Holt*
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Glancing through George Gamow’s popular excursion into modern biology Mr. Tompkins Inside Himself, written with Martynas Yeas, my eye fell on an amusing account of parity. In it a matador faces a bull in a Möbius ring. He would find, should he run right round the Möbius ring by-passing the animal, that he would face the bull again, but the wrong way up, doing, as it were, a hand-stand. The matador, the authors point out, changes his parity. And standing on one’s head is no way to fight a bull.

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 54 , Issue 390 , December 1970 , pp. 346 - 348
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1970

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