Data has a shape. But you’ve got to squint to see it.
KLEIN BOTTLE A Klein bottle is a cylinder with its two ends glued to one another, but one of the ends is turned inside out first. Properly speaking, it doesn’t intersect itself, but the only way to visualize one in three dimensions is to allow it to do so, as in this model by .
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