Ancient Greek mathematicians – most notably Plato - classified solid shapes thousands of years ago. Since then, remarkably few geometric ‘solid’ forms have been discovered and the last collection was ...

A new analysis suggests rocks are likely to break into their Plato-assigned shape: cubes. The Platonic solids are 3D shapes that Plato also gave a "classical element" value. Participating scholar ...

The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been mathematicians who have obsessed about Platonic solids, a class of geometric forms that ...

A prism is a 3D shape which has a constant cross section - both ends of the solid are the same shape and anywhere you cut parallel to these ends will give you the same shape. For example, in the prism ...