The distinctive three-dimensional shape in Albrecht Dürer’s 1514 engraving Melencolia I has been the subject of innumerous analyses and still no one is sure what it is or what it means. On the ...

Consider what happens when a vertex of one tetrahedron pierces the face of a second tetrahedron to form a new, more complicated polyhedron. In the resulting geometric form, one triangular face has a ...

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 ...

Until today, scientists only knew of three classes of 3 dimensional solids. Now they’ve got a fourth. This new flavor of shapes are called Goldberg polyhedrons, and they are the first new class of ...

The works of the Greek polymath Plato have kept people busy for millennia. Mathematicians have long pondered Platonic solids, a collection of geometric forms that are highly regular and are frequently ...

COLLEGEVILLE — A Benedictine monk known for his mathematics prowess and stunning polyhedron art died Friday at the retirement center at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville. The Rev. Magnus Wenninger, who ...

The flat faces and straight edges of a cube signify that it belongs to a large family of geometric shapes known as polyhedra. Several years ago, mathematician John H. Conway of Princeton University ...

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 ...