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A Souvenir from Paris

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

H. Martyn Cundy
H. Martyn Cundy*
Affiliation:
Chancellor College, P.O. Box 5200, Limbe, Malawi
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Two years ago I was in Paris for the New Year. The shops were gay with decorations, and polyhedra were obviously in fashion. I was particularly impressed with a lampshade which was a feature of many of the decorations; it was in the form of an icosidodecahedron, the pentagonal faces being dimpled, and with “petals” added, so that the whole resembled the flower of a Golden Chalice (Solandra grandifloral). Eventually I found a little shop by Notre Dame which would sell me one; I found myself the purchaser of a small box containing twenty strips of card, about 35 cm by 7 cm, which I was assured would make up into the lampshade I required.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 55 , Issue 393 , June 1971 , pp. 310 - 312
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1971

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