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Funny story. I saw this video yesterday morning, about an hour before my topology exam. One of the questions involved calculating the Euler poincare characteris
by hgibbs 11y ago
Funny story. I saw this video yesterday morning, about an hour before my topology exam. One of the questions involved calculating the Euler poincare characteristic of a 3 fold sum of RP2. Unfortunately, I had forgotten the formula for the case of m-fold sums of RP2 but I knew that it was linear in m and that the Euler poincare characteristic of RP2 was 1. Luckily, I remembered a Klein bottle is homeomorphic to the 2-fold sum of RP2. Having seen this video and knowing the cell complex structure of a mobius band ended up being enough for me to derive the answer.
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- waqf 11y agoYou could also have used the fact that S² is homeomorphic to the 2-fold sum of S².
- copperx 11y agoI want to be like you when I grow up.
- hgibbs 11y agoI had a really bad day. Cheers man you have no idea how much that means to me.