Abstract

For a sufficiently general immersion of a smooth or polyhedral closed $2$-dimensional surface into Euclidean $3$-space, the number of triple points is congruent modulo 2 to the Euler characteristic. The approach of this paper involves elementary notions of modification of surfaces by surgery.

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