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Turning a Sphere Inside Out

Digging in further into the Math Blog's archive, I found this post with a series of five videos about interesting math-related content. Well, interesting to some. I found the videos about math education in Washington to be...fine. The video on ten dimensions left a bad taste in my mouth when I read that it was not really connected to the theories of string theory, but "still, many people around the world feel this new idea has resonances with their own ways of understanding reality." Okay, that's nice. And I didn't watch the Flatlander video yet...I've read the book though.

This one, however, blew my $*#&ing mind. Not to mention that I thought the female robot-voiced actor incredibly sexy. "That's no good either. You're pinching it infinitely tight."

Evidentally this is an explication of the Whitney-Graustein theorem, which I believe falls under the category of Surgery theory and more generally Topology. Woah.

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