Plato, Poincaré, and the Enchanted Dodecahedron: Is the Universe Shaped Like the Poincaré Homology Sphere?
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Published:2013-02
Issue:3
Volume:20
Page:12-17
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ISSN:1072-4117
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Container-title:Math Horizons
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Math Horizons
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Reference4 articles.
1. Jean-Pierre Luminet, Glenn D. Starkman, and Jeffrey Weeks, “Is Space Finite?” Scientific American (April 1999), 90–97. http://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/~zirbel/ast21/sciam/IsSpaceFinite.pdf.
2. Timaeus
3. This paper is embellished and enlivened by a series of flash animations created by Dimitra Tzianni, available at http://www.math.wayne.edu/~brenton/flash. The text is complete without the animations, but not nearly so whimsical.