The standard cellular chain complex of the Klein bottle gives
The universal coefficient theorem for cohomology therefore yields , , and . The degree-one generator is pulled back from the base circle in the circle-bundle description of , so its square is zero. Thus every positive-degree product vanishes. The same calculation for gives the integral cohomology ring of the wedge of the real projective plane and a circle, and hence
There is no map inducing this isomorphism. The Klein bottle is an aspherical space, and its fundamental group is torsion-free. Any map therefore induces the trivial homomorphism and is null-homotopic. Its pullback on is zero, while the circle summand has no degree-two cohomology. Consequently every map is zero on and cannot be a cohomology isomorphism.

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