Saturday, May 07, 2011

Borromean Rings

Fascinating topology, especially the things that look similar but don't share the essential property.

...And here I thought it was an old Church symbol or just a beer logo!

5 comments:

Carteach said...

Bobbi, you are so much more intelligent than I am.... it's almost frightening.

Kewl.

Anonymous said...

I was wondering how I was going to get my topology fi today. Now my head hurts.

Terry

og said...

Little known fact: Boromir wore chain mail made exclusively of borromean rings.

BobG said...

Brings back some memories; back in college I took a class in combinatorial topology. It was quite interesting and gives different perspective to some things.

Roberta X said...

Carteach, my blushes!