Rupert’s Property

Azimuth 2025-08-28

Summary:

You can cut a hole in a cube that’s big enough to slide an identical cube through that hole! Think about that for a minute—it’s kind of weird. Amazingly, nobody could prove any convex polyhedron doesn’t have this property! It’s called ‘Rupert’s property’. Until this week. This week Steininger and Yurkevich found this convex polyhedron […]

Link:

https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/a-polyhedron-without-ruperts-property/

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Online Mathematical Communication » Azimuth

Tags:

mathematics

Authors:

John Baez

Date tagged:

08/28/2025, 08:06

Date published:

08/28/2025, 03:50