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Figure 3: (Left) A prism whose base is an equilateral triangle transformed by a screw operation and a caving in of the side faces into (right) an eight-faced polyhedron. The resulting polyhedron cannot be split into tetrahedra with their vertices at the vertices of the polyhedron.

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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

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A mug shot taken by the regional Colombia control agency in Medellin

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Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium

When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

World Data Locator Map: Australia

Is Australia an Island?

Statue of Liberty in front of the skyline of Manhattan, New York City, New York.

Who Was the Woman Behind the Statue of Liberty?

Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

World map. Continents. Oceans. Mendel thumb ok

Just How Many Oceans Are There?

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Figure 3: (Left) A prism whose base is an equilateral triangle transformed by a screw operation and a caving in of the side faces into (right) an eight-faced polyhedron. The resulting polyhedron cannot be split into tetrahedra with their vertices at the vertices of the polyhedron.

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Platonic solid cube dodecahedron vertex icosahedron tetrahedron semiregular polyhedron trapezohedron tesseract Euler’s theorem on polyhedrons polygon Euler characteristic

Quiz

Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

Define It: Math Terms