Klein bottle
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The Klein bottle is a strange surface. It does not have inside or outside, because it has only one surface. The original idea of a Klein bottle is located in a 4-dimensional space, and does not touch itself. The bottle is named after the German mathematician Felix Klein. He described it in 1882, and named it Klein'sche Fläche (Klein surface).
The 2-dimensional version of a Klein bottle is a Möbius strip.
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