Timeline for 3D surfaces of infinite genus
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 9:34 | answer | added | Sam Nead | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 27, 2011 at 21:18 | comment | added | Jim Conant | By the way, there are uncountably many different embeddings of infinite genus surfaces in $\mathbb R^3$. Take a long tube, and put a line of tubes tied in knots along this tube. Letting these knots vary gives an uncountable family of surfaces, | |
| Sep 27, 2011 at 21:13 | comment | added | Jim Conant | You might find Benoit Kloeckner's answer at mathoverflow.net/questions/4155/… illuminating, which gives a classification of all non-compact surfaces. | |
| Sep 27, 2011 at 20:11 | comment | added | James | @IgorRivin: As in one in ${\mathbb R}^3$ | |
| Sep 27, 2011 at 20:01 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | What is a 3D surface? | |
| Sep 27, 2011 at 19:47 | history | asked | James | CC BY-SA 3.0 |