Prince Rupert's cube significant person John Wallis
In geometry, Prince Rupert's cube is the largest cube that can pass through a hole cut through a unit cube without splitting it into two pieces. Its side length is approximately 1.06, 6% larger than the side length 1 of the unit cube through which it passes. The problem of finding the largest square that lies entirely within a unit cube is closely related, and has the same solution.
Prince Rupert's cube is named after Prince Rupert of the Rhine, who asked whether a cube could be passed through a hole made in another cube of the same size without splitting the cube into two pieces. A positive answer was given by John Wallis. Approximately 100 years later, Pieter Nieuwland found the largest possible cube that can pass through a hole in a unit cube.
Many other convex polyhedra, including all five Platonic solids, have been shown to have the Rupert property: a copy of the polyhedron, of the same or larger shape, can be passed through a hole in the polyhedron. It is unknown whether this is true for all convex polyhedra.