If you are being introduced to the topic of Polyhedron Models for the first time, many of the terms used in the initial stages of the project may seem slightly abstract. There is a Glossary of Terms provided in a link at the end of this page to help overcome this difficulty.

Polyhedra (the plural of polyhedron) are three-dimensional figures made up of sides called faces. This brief definition already focuses the mind into thinking in three-dimensional terms. What must be taken into consideration when studying this topic an indeed when going through this website is that mathematics and its understanding plays a vital role in the comprehension of these polyhedra. Often mathematics is conceived as being difficult and abstract. I beg to differ. When mathematics is studied in the context of polyhedron models the words of Bertrand Russell come to mind,

‘mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and asture, like that of sculpture, sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection, such as only the greatest art can show’.

This website is intended to offer an explanation of the platonic and archimedean (regular and semi-regular) solids, at once simple and practical and not too speculative.

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