Closing a Platonic gap

DOI10.1007/S00283-014-9456-2MaRDI QIDQ2354124zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Elgersma, Stan Wagon

Publication date 10 July 2015

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-014-9456-2

zbMATH Keywords

Platonic solidregular tetrahedronring of tetrahedratetratorus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Symmetry properties of polytopes (52B15)

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• Symmetrical combinations of three or four hollow triangles
• Closing gaps in geometrically frustrated symmetric clusters: local equivalence between discrete curvature and twist transformations
• An asymptotically closed loop of tetrahedra
• Combinatorial representation of tetrahedral chains
• Platonic Passages
• Tetrahedral chains and a curious semigroup
• Bringing Closure to the Plotting Position Controversy
• Closing the generation gap
• Construction of toroidal polyhedra corresponding to perfect chains of isosceles tetrahedra

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