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 ...

A polygon is regular if it is uniform and its faces are all alike. The regular convex polyhedra are the five Platonic solids, which have been known since classical Greece. The ancient Greek ...

These shapes, called the Platonic solids, did not originate with Plato. In fact, ... Plato’s ideas lent dignity and grandeur to the study of geometry, and greatly stimulated its development.

Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (Perspective of regular solids), created in 1568 by German goldsmith and printmaker Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508–1585), is a study in shapes inspired by the five ...

A69, 592-602; doi: 10.1107/S0108767313021442] shows how regular convex 4-polytopes, the analogues of the Platonic solids in four dimensions, can be constructed from three-dimensional ...

Romancing the Platonic. By Julie Schaffer • June 8, 2011 • News, Review. SHARE. Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry The Graham Foundation 4 West Burton Place, Chicago ...

If nothing else, Schein's work may prod mathematicians to find other interesting geometric shapes, now that equilateral convex polyhedra have a new family. PNAS, 2014. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310939111 ...

Student Design Competition with the theme of "Sacred Geometry: Platonic Solids." $24,000 in prizes! The Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA) in Greenwood Village, CO seeks conceptual design proposals for ...

A polygon is regular if it is uniform and its faces are all alike. The regular convex polyhedra are the five Platonic solids, which have been known since classical Greece. The ancient Greek ...