Mobius Strip: 'Endless Ribbon' Mystery Solved
Science Daily 26 July 2007:
Dr Eugene Starostin and Dr Gert van der Heijden (both from UCL Civil & Environmental Engineering) recently published the solution to a 75-year-old mystery.
A Möbius strip made with a piece of paper and tape. (Credit: David Benbennick / Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)
The two academics have discovered how to predict the shape of a Möbius strip, the ‘endless ribbon’ which is obtained by taking a rectangular strip of paper, twisting one end through 180 degrees, and then joining the ends.
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