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 ...

Flat hexagons and pentagons come together in new twist on old polyhedra In the latest verse of a centuries-old mathematical refrain, scientists have figured a way to iron out the wrinkles in a large ...

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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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 Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...