Beyond the Cube
Subtitle: The Architecture of Space Frames and Polyhedra
Publisher: Wiley
Published: July 29, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780471122616
First sentence: Writing about the history of polyhedra up to the year 1900 means either lining up repetitive quotations from some 400 editions of Euclid's Elements or-which the author prefers-making a voyage of exploration through historic objects and images of polyhedral shapes and considering the specialists involved.