Platonic Toys

1st August, 2009

…in which I showcase the talents of my wife.

A mathematician friend of ours recently produced offspring. Mrs Elwes created a set of welcome-to-the-world presents:

tetrahedron

cube

octahedron

dodecahedron

icosahedron

platonic-solids

Next time, it’s the Catalan solids!

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One Response to “Platonic Toys”

  1. From Doormat:

    October 1st, 2009 at 3:30 pm

    Ah! I didn’t realised you’d blogged about these! Offspring enjoys these very much, although all attempts to explain geometry to him have thus far failed…

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