COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — Is it art or is it science? That’s a question a lot of people have when they see the Rev. Magnus Wenninger’s three-dimensional creations that take up every conceivable nook and ...
Chemists have created a molecular polyhedron, a ground-breaking assembly that has the potential to impact a range of industrial and consumer products, including magnetic and optical materials.
The problem of the relationship between the structure of materials and their physical properties is one of the global problems of the present day. For many years, researchers of the Lobachevsky ...
Debate has continued for five centuries as to the artist’s true intention with the work, including with the title itself, since the significance of melancholy was up for debate in the Renaissance. The ...
Finding the most efficient way to pack simple objects such as spheres has entertained and infuriated mathematicians from Aristotle to the present. Now, a team of physicists and mathematicians in the ...
https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.3.265 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.3.265 The five Platonic polyhedra combine identical ...