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July 26, 2003
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Perfect Pyramids A group of tetrahedra that some people consider special consists of those that have integer edge lengths, face areas, and volumes. Such a solid is sometimes called a Heronian tetrahedron or a perfect pyramid.   |
Science News
December 24, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
A Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities New technologies have made it possible to create 3D models of geometric shapes, magically transforming equations into elegant, intriguing miniatures. |
Science News
February 8, 2003
Ivars Peterson |
A Graceful Sculpture's Showy Snow Crash Brent Collins has spent more than two decades carving gracefully curvaceous sculptures out of wood. Collins is not a mathematician, yet his intuition and aesthetic sense have led him to explore patterns and shapes that have an underlying mathematical logic. |
Science News
April 21, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
Forms of Symmetry Group theory inspires a West Coast sculptor. |
Science News
June 17, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Punctured Polyhedra Is there a polyhedron in Euclidean three-dimensional space that has only finitely many plane faces, each of which is a closed connected subset of the appropriate plane whose relative interior in that plane is multiply connected? |
Science News
November 4, 2000
Ivars Peterson |
Mathematical Art on Display The term "mathematical art" usually conjures up just one name---that of Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher. But the realm of mathematical art is far wider and more diverse than most people realize... |
