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Record 1 1994-08-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
DEF

Polyèdre à quatre faces dont six carrés et huit hexagones, connu d'Archimède et redécouvert par le cristallographe russe Fedorov, qui peut remplir l'espace entier sans lacunes, comme le fait le dodécaèdre rhomboïdal.

OBS

Néologisme proposé par le mathématicien Hermann Weyl dans Symétrie et mathématiques modernes.

Spanish

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