{"title":"The role of convexity in defining regular polyhedra","authors":"Chris Ottewill","doi":"10.1017/mag.2024.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mag.2024.10","url":null,"abstract":"It is almost twenty years since Branko Grünbaum lamented that the ‘original sin’ in the theory of polyhedra is that from Euclid onwards “the writers failed to define what are the ‘polyhedra’ among which they are finding the ‘regular’ ones” ([1, p. 43]). Various definitions of ‘regular’ can be found in the literature with a condition of convexity often included (e.g. [2, p. 301], [3, p. 77], [4, p. 47], [5, p. 435], [6, p. 16]). The condition of convexity is usually cited to exclude regular self-intersecting polyhedra, i.e. the Kepler-Poinsot polyhedra, such as the ‘great dodecahedron’ consisting of twelve intersecting pentagonal faces shown in Figure 1 with one face shaded. Richeson also notes ([4, pp. 47-48]) that, for a particular definition of ‘regular’, convexity is needed to exclude the ‘punched-in’ icosahedron shown in Figure 2.","PeriodicalId":22812,"journal":{"name":"The Mathematical Gazette","volume":"59 20","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139775034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lost in the Math Museum by Colin Adams, pp 209, $35 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-47046-858-3, American Mathematical Society (2022)","authors":"Mark Hunacek","doi":"10.1017/mag.2024.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mag.2024.53","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22812,"journal":{"name":"The Mathematical Gazette","volume":"2 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139774634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The polyhedrists: art and geometry in the long sixteenth century by Noam Andrews , pp. 300, $44.95, ISBN 978-0-26204-664-0, MIT Press (2022)","authors":"G. Leversha","doi":"10.1017/mag.2024.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mag.2024.43","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22812,"journal":{"name":"The Mathematical Gazette","volume":"59 29","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139775385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relating constructions and properties through duality","authors":"Steven J. Kilner, David L. Farnsworth","doi":"10.1017/mag.2024.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mag.2024.5","url":null,"abstract":"Our goal is to find new constructions and properties of parabolas. Our strategy is to display the steps in a known construction or property, and then to take the dual of the steps in order to create a new construction or property.","PeriodicalId":22812,"journal":{"name":"The Mathematical Gazette","volume":"12 23","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139776213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"108.01 A use of Pythagorean triples in a problem in elementary geometry","authors":"Alexander Kronberg","doi":"10.1017/mag.2024.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mag.2024.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22812,"journal":{"name":"The Mathematical Gazette","volume":"144 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139834783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A cautionary tale about the pole of polar coordinates","authors":"Nick Lord","doi":"10.1017/mag.2024.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mag.2024.37","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22812,"journal":{"name":"The Mathematical Gazette","volume":"105 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139834828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"xy = cos (x + y) and other implicit equations that are surprisingly easy to plot","authors":"Michael Jewess","doi":"10.1017/mag.2024.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mag.2024.2","url":null,"abstract":"The following equations relate y only implicitly to x:(1)(2) In both equations, y is a function of x for a continuous range of (x, y) values in the real x-y plane. (1) represents an ellipse. (2) has been designed by the author to have a solution in the real x-y plane at (−1, 2), and because the function on the left-hand side of (2) meets certain conditions regarding continuity and partial differentiability there must be a line of points in the real x-y plane satisfying (2) and passing continuously through (−1, 2) [1, pp. 23-28].","PeriodicalId":22812,"journal":{"name":"The Mathematical Gazette","volume":"117 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139835957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relating constructions and properties through duality","authors":"Steven J. Kilner, David L. Farnsworth","doi":"10.1017/mag.2024.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mag.2024.5","url":null,"abstract":"Our goal is to find new constructions and properties of parabolas. Our strategy is to display the steps in a known construction or property, and then to take the dual of the steps in order to create a new construction or property.","PeriodicalId":22812,"journal":{"name":"The Mathematical Gazette","volume":"183 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139835974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}