Besides the regular and semiregular solids, there are just ninety-two other convex polyhedra with regular faces. In 1966, the American mathematician Norman W. Johnson, a student of H.S.M. Coxeter at ...

The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been mathematicians who have obsessed about Platonic solids, a class of geometric forms that ...

For most people, the word “polyhedron” conjures up an image of a cube, a tetrahedron, or something similar—a solid figure with flat faces. If the polyhedron is regular, each face has the same size and ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation UK. The original is here. The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been ...

Royal Society Research Fellow and Senior Birmingham Fellow, University of Birmingham The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been ...