Shapes, Space, and Symmetry and the great American country

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Shapes, Space, and Symmetry and the great American country"Altogether a most instructive, entertaining, and esthetically pleasing book." Science. Since the ancient Greeks, the visualization of space has been a challenge that has intrigued men of learning. Through centuries of thoughtful looking, a number of three dimensional figures or polyhedral, as the Greeks called them, have been discovered, admired, and wondered at for their mathematical elegance and beauty. And they have been put to use in remarkably