Timeline for Why can't the Klein bottle embed in $\mathbb{R}^3$?
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| Mar 22, 2010 at 11:46 | comment | added | Tommaso Centeleghe | I do not know if it is true that the normal bundle of a closed, connected surface in R^3 is trivial. It seems to agree with what Sam Nead says below. I will try to inquiry this! | |
| Mar 22, 2010 at 11:18 | comment | added | Don Stanley | I mean without using some characteristic class theory ... | |
| Mar 22, 2010 at 11:14 | comment | added | Don Stanley | How do you prove the normal bundle is trivial? | |
| Mar 22, 2010 at 11:12 | history | answered | Tommaso Centeleghe | CC BY-SA 2.5 |