Quotes About Dodecahedron

When I do the dodecahedron with the science audiences, I'll point out that I can only do three of the five forms with bubbles, since bubbles only join at three-way corners. The two I can't do are the ones that represent water and air. That always gets a big laugh from the mathematicians. They see the irony in it.

The Pythagoreans were mystics, and believed that the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, and icosahedron respectively underlay the structure of the four elements of Greek science: fire, earth, air, and water. The dodecahedron they identified with the universe as a whole.

Even after Pythagoras's death a member of the Brotherhood was drowned for breaking his oath—he publicly announced the discovery of a new regular solid, the dodecahedron, constructed from twelve regular pentagons.