How to Sew a Nine-Color Map on a Genus-Three Torus
Proceedings of Bridges 2024: Mathematics, Art, Music, Architecture, Culture
Pages 531–536
Workshop Papers
Abstract
In 1891, Lothar Heffter described a complete map with nine regions on a surface of genus-three. Heffter used a table of numbers to present his map, which makes it very hard to visualize. In this workshop we will make a felt model based on Heffter’s map using a slight modification to his specifications that simplifies the structure.