A Journey into the Polyhedrons’ World

Giuseppe Conti, Alberto Trotta, Francesco Conti

Abstract


In this article the authors intend to present a very important topic of the geometry of space: the polyhedra. After having introduced their definition, their presence will be shown in nature, in everyday life and in art, starting from ancient Greece up to the present day. First of all, we will deal with regular polyhedra; subsequently we will introduce the important family, especially in the applications, of the Archimedean polyhedra. Finally, the interesting Goldberg polyhedra will be presented.


Keywords


Polyhedra, convex figures, space tessellation, golden rectangle, Euler's relation.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23756/sp.v6i1.406

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