Platonic solids are regular bodies in three dimensions, such as the cube and icosahedron, and have been known for millennia. They feature prominently in the natural world wherever geometry and ...
Plato's School (detail), by Jean Delville (1898). Source: Wikimedia commons/Public domain After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the knowledge of Greek was lost in the West. In around 321 CE, the ...
Alicia Boole Stott, the third daughter of mathematician George Boole, is probably best known for establishing the term "polytope" for a convex solid in four dimensions. Alicia was also a long time ...
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