So today’s my thirteenth wedding anniversary. And what did my lovely wife buy me as a present?
Yes, a Klein bottle coffee mug.
Does she know me well, or what?
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So today’s my thirteenth wedding anniversary. And what did my lovely wife buy me as a present?
Yes, a Klein bottle coffee mug.
Does she know me well, or what?
If she really loved you, she would have gotten you a Banach-Tarski coffee pot. You pour out half the coffee into a second pot, and you have two containers holding the same amount of coffee you started with.
🙂
Happy anniversary!
So, you’re taking your wife on a vacation, and gave her the tickets for the projective plane?
Blake Stacey: great quote from John Armstrong.
Ah Cliff Stoll. I was at a few Joint Meetings where he was hawking his Klein bottles in the exhibit hall. He was awesome. He acted like a used car salesman trying to get people to buy his bottles. He always had a crowd around him enjoying the show.
Unfortunately, not enough people bought them on site to justify his travel and exhibition expenses. So he stopped coming.
Blake, Mark must have already applied Banach-Tarski to the mug: his wife bought one but the picture shows two.
I hate to be a pill, but doesn’t the handle get kinda hot?
I have one of his regular flask bottles that I bought from his website a long time ago. I need to bring it in to my new office. It’s always a hit.
A brilliant present! If it weren’t for the fact that it seems very difficult to clean it, I’d buy one for myself.
I bought a pair of the nominally half liter bottles, one for me and one for my father, the mathematician. It was extremely funny watching him try to explain to my mother (a very sweet woman, and educated, but she grew up on a farm and is very concrete in her thinking) why it was so unbelievably cool.