On a Saturday afternoon in the fall of 2021, Silvio Decurtins was leafing through a paper with a title that could have been pulled from a comic book for mathematically inclined teens: “Plato’s Cube ...

Learn about triangles and quadrilaterals with BBC Bitesize Key Stage 3 Maths. Learn about tessellations with BBC Bitesize Key Stage 3 Maths. WATCH: How to draw a regular hexagon, square and triangle A ...

The perimeter is the total distance around the edge of a 2D shape. Examples of units of distance are millimetres (mm), centimetres (cm) and metres (m). The perimeter of any 2D shape can be found by ...

New approaches to creating shapes promise to simplify the design work behind the aesthetic surfaces found on consumer products. Pity the poor designers trying to generate eye-popping shapes for ...

Which look bigger, packages of complicated shape or packages of simple shape? Some prior research shows that complex packages appear larger than simple packages of equal volume, while other research ...