https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.3.265 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.3.265 The five Platonic polyhedra combine identical ...

From ancient times, mathematicians have been intrigued by polyhedra, closed surfaces with polygons as sides. They have been especially interested in those in which the polygons are regular – the sides ...

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Biochemists have coaxed a protein to assemble into a snub-cube-shaped cage. Snub cubes, which have 38 faces—6 squares and 32 equilateral triangles—are one of the 13 Archimedean solids, first described ...

Chemists have created a molecular polyhedron, a ground-breaking assembly that has the potential to impact a range of industrial and consumer products, including magnetic and optical materials.

Pope Francis had me way before the polyhedron. Regardless of where on the faith spectrum one falls, how can one not be moved by this Messenger of Peace? But the Pope's use of geometry as an analog for ...