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A New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands the Same Side Up

Summary by Quanta Magazine
In 360 BCE, Plato envisioned the cosmos as an arrangement of five geometric shapes: flat-sided solids called polyhedra. These immediately became important objects of mathematical study. So it might be surprising that, millennia later, mysteries still surround even the simplest shape in Plato’s polyhedral universe: the tetrahedron, which has just four triangular faces. One major open problem… Source

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Quanta Magazine broke the news in on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
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