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Snub Disphenoid
In geometry, the snub disphenoid, Siamese dodecahedron, triangular dodecahedron, trigonal dodecahedron, or dodecadeltahedron is a convex polyhedron with twelve equilateral triangles as its faces. It is not a regular polyhedron because some vertices have four faces and others have five. It is a dodecahedron, one of the eight deltahedra (convex polyhedra with equilateral triangle faces), and is the 84th Johnson solid (non-uniform convex polyhedra with regular faces). It can be thought of as a square antiprism where both squares are replaced with two equilateral triangles. The snub disphenoid is also the vertex figure of the isogonal 13-5 step prism, a polychoron constructed from a 13-13 duoprism by selecting a vertex on a tridecagon, then selecting the 5th vertex on the next tridecagon, doing so until reaching the original tridecagon. It cannot be made uniform, however, because the snub disphenoid has no circumscribed sphere. History and naming This shape was called a ''Siamese ...
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Elongated Gyrobifastigium
In geometry, the elongated gyrobifastigium or gabled rhombohedron is a space-filling octahedron with 4 rectangles and 4 right-angled pentagonal faces. Name The first name is from the regular-faced gyrobifastigium but elongated with 4 triangles expanded into pentagons. The name of the gyrobifastigium comes from the Latin ''fastigium'', meaning a sloping roof. In the standard naming convention of the Johnson solids, ''bi-'' means two solids connected at their bases, and ''gyro-'' means the two halves are twisted with respect to each other. The gyrobifastigium is first in a series of gyrobicupola, so this solid can also be called an ''elongated digonal gyrobicupola''. Geometrically it can also be constructed as the dual of a digonal gyrobianticupola. This construction is space-filling. The second name, ''gabled rhombohedron'', is from Michael Goldberg's paper on space-filling octahedra, model 8-VI, the 6th of at least 49 space-filling octahedra. A gable is the triangular portion ...
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Dodecahedron
In geometry, a dodecahedron (Greek , from ''dōdeka'' "twelve" + ''hédra'' "base", "seat" or "face") or duodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces. The most familiar dodecahedron is the regular dodecahedron with regular pentagons as faces, which is a Platonic solid. There are also three regular star dodecahedra, which are constructed as stellations of the convex form. All of these have icosahedral symmetry, order 120. Some dodecahedra have the same combinatorial structure as the regular dodecahedron (in terms of the graph formed by its vertices and edges), but their pentagonal faces are not regular: The pyritohedron, a common crystal form in pyrite, has pyritohedral symmetry, while the tetartoid has tetrahedral symmetry. The rhombic dodecahedron can be seen as a limiting case of the pyritohedron, and it has octahedral symmetry. The elongated dodecahedron and trapezo-rhombic dodecahedron variations, along with the rhombic dodecahedra, are space-filling. There ...
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Johnson Solid
In geometry, a Johnson solid is a strictly convex polyhedron each face of which is a regular polygon. There is no requirement that isohedral, each face must be the same polygon, or that the same polygons join around each Vertex (geometry), vertex. An example of a Johnson solid is the square-based Pyramid (geometry), pyramid with equilateral sides (square pyramid, ); it has 1 square face and 4 triangular faces. Some authors require that the solid not be uniform polyhedron, uniform (i.e., not Platonic solid, Archimedean solid, prism (geometry), uniform prism, or uniform antiprism) before they refer to it as a “Johnson solid”. As in any strictly convex solid, at least three faces meet at every vertex, and the total of their angles is less than 360 degrees. Since a regular polygon has angles at least 60 degrees, it follows that at most five faces meet at any vertex. The pentagonal pyramid () is an example that has a degree-5 vertex. Although there is no obvious restriction tha ...
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Polychoron
In geometry, a 4-polytope (sometimes also called a polychoron, polycell, or polyhedroid) is a four-dimensional polytope. It is a connected and closed figure, composed of lower-dimensional polytopal elements: vertices, edges, faces (polygons), and cells (polyhedra). Each face is shared by exactly two cells. The 4-polytopes were discovered by the Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli before 1853. The two-dimensional analogue of a 4-polytope is a polygon, and the three-dimensional analogue is a polyhedron. Topologically 4-polytopes are closely related to the uniform honeycombs, such as the cubic honeycomb, which tessellate 3-space; similarly the 3D cube is related to the infinite 2D square tiling. Convex 4-polytopes can be ''cut and unfolded'' as nets in 3-space. Definition A 4-polytope is a closed four-dimensional figure. It comprises vertices (corner points), edges, faces and cells. A cell is the three-dimensional analogue of a face, and is therefore a polyhedron. Each fa ...
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Icosahedron
In geometry, an icosahedron ( or ) is a polyhedron with 20 faces. The name comes and . The plural can be either "icosahedra" () or "icosahedrons". There are infinitely many non- similar shapes of icosahedra, some of them being more symmetrical than others. The best known is the (convex, non- stellated) regular icosahedron—one of the Platonic solids—whose faces are 20 equilateral triangles. Regular icosahedra There are two objects, one convex and one nonconvex, that can both be called regular icosahedra. Each has 30 edges and 20 equilateral triangle faces with five meeting at each of its twelve vertices. Both have icosahedral symmetry. The term "regular icosahedron" generally refers to the convex variety, while the nonconvex form is called a ''great icosahedron''. Convex regular icosahedron The convex regular icosahedron is usually referred to simply as the ''regular icosahedron'', one of the five regular Platonic solids, and is represented by its Schläfli symbol , con ...
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Pentagonal Bipyramid
In geometry, the pentagonal bipyramid (or dipyramid) is third of the infinite set of face-transitive bipyramids, and the 13th Johnson solid (). Each bipyramid is the dual of a uniform prism. Although it is face-transitive, it is not a Platonic solid because some vertices have four faces meeting and others have five faces. Properties If the faces are equilateral triangles, it is a deltahedron and a Johnson solid (''J''13). It can be seen as two pentagonal pyramids (''J''2) connected by their bases. : The pentagonal dipyramid is 4-connected, meaning that it takes the removal of four vertices to disconnect the remaining vertices. It is one of only four 4-connected simplicial well-covered polyhedra, meaning that all of the maximal independent sets of its vertices have the same size. The other three polyhedra with this property are the regular octahedron, the snub disphenoid, and an irregular polyhedron with 12 vertices and 20 triangular faces.. Formulae The following f ...
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Triangular Bipyramid
In geometry, the triangular bipyramid (or dipyramid) is a type of hexahedron, being the first in the infinite set of face-transitive bipyramids. It is the dual of the triangular prism with 6 isosceles triangle faces. As the name suggests, it can be constructed by joining two tetrahedra along one face. Although all its faces are congruent and the solid is face-transitive, it is not a Platonic solid because some vertices adjoin three faces and others adjoin four. The bipyramid whose six faces are all equilateral triangles is one of the Johnson solids, (). As a Johnson solid with all faces equilateral triangles, it is also a deltahedron. Formulae The following formulae for the height (H), surface area (A) and volume (V) can be used if all faces are regular, with edge length L: :H = L\cdot \frac \approx L\cdot 1.632993162 :A = L^2 \cdot \frac \approx L^2\cdot 2.598076211 :V = L^3 \cdot \frac \approx L^3\cdot 0.235702260 Dual polyhedron The dual polyhedron of the ...
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Hexagonal Bipyramid
A hexagonal bipyramid is a polyhedron formed from two hexagonal pyramid (geometry), pyramids joined at their bases. The resulting solid has 12 triangular face (geometry), faces, 8 vertex (geometry), vertices and 18 edges. The 12 faces are identical isosceles triangles. Although it is face-transitive, it is not a Platonic solid because some vertices have four faces meeting and others have six faces, and it is not a Johnson solid because its faces cannot be equilateral triangles; 6 equilateral triangles would make a flat vertex. It is one of an infinite set of bipyramids. Having twelve faces, it is a type of dodecahedron, although that name is usually associated with the regular polyhedron, regular polyhedral form with pentagonal faces. The hexagonal bipyramid has a plane of symmetry (which is Horizontal plane, horizontal in the figure to the right) where the bases of the two pyramids are joined. This plane is a regular hexagon. There are also six planes of symmetry crossing throu ...
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Simplicial Polyhedron
In geometry, a simplicial polytope is a polytope whose facets are all simplices. For example, a ''simplicial polyhedron'' in three dimensions contains only triangular facesPolyhedra, Peter R. Cromwell, 1997. (p.341) and corresponds via Steinitz's theorem to a maximal planar graph. They are topologically dual to simple polytopes. Polytopes which are both simple and simplicial are either simplices or two-dimensional polygons. Examples Simplicial polyhedra include: * Bipyramids * Gyroelongated dipyramids *Deltahedra (equilateral triangles) ** Platonic *** tetrahedron, octahedron, icosahedron ** Johnson solids: ***triangular bipyramid, pentagonal bipyramid, snub disphenoid, triaugmented triangular prism, gyroelongated square dipyramid * Catalan solids: ** triakis tetrahedron, triakis octahedron, tetrakis hexahedron, disdyakis dodecahedron, triakis icosahedron, pentakis dodecahedron, disdyakis triacontahedron Simplicial tilings: * Regular: ** triangular tiling *Laves tilings: ...
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Simon Stevin (journal)
''Simon Stevin'' was a Dutch language academic journal in pure and applied mathematics, or ''Wiskunde'' as the field is known in Dutch. Published in Ghent, edited by Guy Hirsch, it ran for 67 volumes until 1993.''Simon Stevin''
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Deltahedron
In geometry, a deltahedron (plural ''deltahedra'') is a polyhedron whose face (geometry), faces are all equilateral triangles. The name is taken from the Greek language, Greek upper case delta (letter), delta (Δ), which has the shape of an equilateral triangle. There are infinitely many deltahedra, all having an even number of faces by the handshaking lemma. Of these only eight are Convex polyhedron, convex, having 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 20 faces. The number of faces, edges, and vertex (geometry), vertices is listed below for each of the eight convex deltahedra. The eight convex deltahedra There are only eight strictly-convex deltahedra: three are regular polyhedra, and five are Johnson solids. The three regular convex polyhedra are indeed Platonic solids. In the 6-faced deltahedron, some vertices have degree 3 and some degree 4. In the 10-, 12-, 14-, and 16-faced deltahedra, some vertices have degree 4 and some degree 5. These five irregular deltahedra belong to the ...
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Bartel Leendert Van Der Waerden
Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (; 2 February 1903 – 12 January 1996) was a Dutch mathematician and historian of mathematics. Biography Education and early career Van der Waerden learned advanced mathematics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Göttingen, from 1919 until 1926. He was much influenced by Emmy Noether at Göttingen, Germany. Amsterdam awarded him a Ph.D. for a thesis on algebraic geometry, supervised by Hendrick de Vries. Göttingen awarded him the habilitation in 1928. In that year, at the age of 25, he accepted a professorship at the University of Groningen. In his 27th year, Van der Waerden published his ''Moderne Algebra'', an influential two-volume treatise on abstract algebra, still cited, and perhaps the first treatise to treat the subject as a comprehensive whole. This work systematized an ample body of research by Emmy Noether, David Hilbert, Richard Dedekind, and Emil Artin. In the following year, 1931, he was appointed professor ...
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