From Pentagons to Pentagrams

Azimuth 2026-05-29

Summary:

I recently showed you that if you take the regular icosahedron: considered in a coordinate system based on the golden ratio, and then replace √5 by -√5 in all your formulas, you get the great icosahedron: But this fact isn’t an isolated one-off! If we do the same for the regular dodecahedron: we get the […]

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https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/from-pentagons-to-pentagrams/

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mathematics

Authors:

John Baez

Date tagged:

05/29/2026, 14:24

Date published:

05/29/2026, 08:00