Roman dodecahedra

DOI10.1007/BF03024193MaRDI QIDQ2365837zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Benno Artmann

Publication date 29 June 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024193

zbMATH Keywords

dodecahedronGreekhistoricalregular figuresRomanthree-dimensional polytopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) History of convex and discrete geometry (52-03) Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10)

Review text

The author describes the shape of some old dodecahedra, one of them dating from about 500 B. C. Concerning the meaning of such a dodecahedron he discusses the two conjectures of associations between a dodecahedron and fire or the zodiac. At the end he reports what Greek mathematicians and philosophers had to say on this subject.

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• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3863148 (Why is no real title available?)
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