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Efimov proved that there are no $C^2$ isometric immersions of complete surfaces with negative Guassian curvature bounded away from zero.

N.V. Efimov, "Imposibility of a complete regular surface in euclidean 3-space whose Gaussian curvature has a negative upper bound" Soviet Math. Dokl. , 4 : 3 (1963) pp. 843–846 Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR , 150 : 6 (1963) pp. 1206–1209

One reference I know for this is chapter 10 of the book of Han and Hong, "Isometric Embedding of Riemannian Manifolds in Euclidean Spaces."

Edit: Tilla Klotz Milnor's paper "Efimov's theorem about complete immersed surfaces of negative curvature" is an exposition of this theorem in English. I've only looked at the introduction so far but it looks rather thorough.

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Efimov proved that there are no $C^2$ isometric immersions of complete surfaces with negative Guassian curvature bounded away from zero.

N.V. Efimov, "Imposibility of a complete regular surface in euclidean 3-space whose Gaussian curvature has a negative upper bound" Soviet Math. Dokl. , 4 : 3 (1963) pp. 843–846 Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR , 150 : 6 (1963) pp. 1206–1209

One reference I know for this is chapter 10 of the book of Han and Hong, "Isometric Embedding of Riemannian Manifolds in Euclidean Spaces."