International Dodecahedron Day 2016! – Creativity in Mathematics

I have always been fascinated by geometry in three dimensions. I can still remember an eighth-grade project in my algebra class where we built polyhedra -- mine was a white icosahedron with smaller, orange equilateral triangles connecting the midpoints of the edges.  This is what an icosahedron looks like: I even naively tried to build…

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Day140 – Creativity in Mathematics

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From the Sixteenth Century Onwards: Folding Polyhedra—New Epistemological Horizons?

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A Kirigami Approach to Forming a Synthetic Buckliball

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