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In search of the lost icosahedra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Guy Inchbald
Guy Inchbald*
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Park View, Queenhill, Upton-on-Severn, Worcs WR8 0RE, guy@steelpillow.com
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Just over sixty years ago Coxeter, Du Val, Flather and Petrie wrote The fifty-nine icosahedra. A new edition, with redrawn illustrations and useful additional material, has recently been published, making this a convenient moment to see if there is anything new to say. Coxeter once described the work as reflecting a certain ‘youthful exuberance’, so do not be too surprised at what we find.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 86 , Issue 506 , July 2002 , pp. 208 - 215
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 2002 

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