page_title: Archimedean solid
hierarchical_section_title: Archimedean solid
context_page_description: In geometry, an Archimedean solid is a convex shape which is composed of polygons. It is a polyhedron, with the following properties:
  Each face is made of a regular polygon
  All the corners of the shape look the same
  The shape is neither a platonic solid, nor a prism, nor an antiprism.
  Depending on the way there are counted, there are thirteen or fifteen such shapes. Of two of these shapes, there are two versions, which cannot be made congruent using rotation. The Archimedean solids are named after the Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, who probably discovered them in the 3rd century BC. The writings of Archimedes have been lost, but Pappus of Alexandria summarized them in the 4th century. During the Renaissance, artists and mathematicians valued pure forms and rediscovered all of these forms. Johannes Kepler probably completed this search around 1620.
  Constructing an Archimedean solid takes at least two different polygons.
context_section_description: In geometry, an Archimedean solid is a convex shape which is composed of polygons. It is a polyhedron, with the following properties:
  Each face is made of a regular polygon
  All the corners of the shape look the same
  The shape is neither a platonic solid, nor a prism, nor an antiprism.
  Depending on the way there are counted, there are thirteen or fifteen such shapes. Of two of these shapes, there are two versions, which cannot be made congruent using rotation. The Archimedean solids are named after the Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, who probably discovered them in the 3rd century BC. The writings of Archimedes have been lost, but Pappus of Alexandria summarized them in the 4th century. During the Renaissance, artists and mathematicians valued pure forms and rediscovered all of these forms. Johannes Kepler probably completed this search around 1620.
  Constructing an Archimedean solid takes at least two different polygons.
caption: A truncated icosahedron looks like a soccer ball. It is made of 12 equilateral pentagons and 20 regular hexagons. It has 60 vertices and 90 edges. It is an Archimedean solid
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