Ancient Greek mathematicians – most notably Plato - classified solid shapes thousands of years ago. Since then, remarkably few geometric ‘solid’ forms have been discovered and the last collection was ...

A prism is a 3D shape which has a constant cross section - both ends of the solid are the same shape and anywhere you cut parallel to these ends will give you the same shape. For example, in the prism ...

Royal Society Research Fellow and Senior Birmingham Fellow, University of Birmingham The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer. In 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger ...