Talk:List of books about polyhedra

Book suggestions from User:JeffHoop

I am also a Polyhedra enthusiast. I would like to suggest a few more books for inclusion in this list. I have a total of 6 suggestions. For the "10.1 Introductory books, also suitable for school use" section, I have read and used in either K-12 classrooms or with pre-service Elementary teachers.

• "Unit Origami: Multidimensional Transformations" by Tokomoko Fuse, Publisher: Japan Publications (April 15, 1990)

ISBN-10: 0870408526 ISBN-13: 978-0870408526

It contains origami instructions to build many polyhedra. The shapes vary from simple to extremely complex. The book focuses on Origami and construction from my recollection. Not the mathematics of the shapes.

• "Build Your Own Polyhedra" by Peter Hilton (Author), Charlotte Carlisle (Illustrator), Mambi Lewis (Illustrator), Jean Pedersen (Author), Publisher: Dale Seymour Publications; 2 edition (1994)

ISBN-10: 020149096X ISBN-13: 978-0201490961

It contains instructions for building the Platonic solids and other shapes using paper tape. The focus audience is teachers. It contains some mathematics.

• "Polyhedra Pastimes" by Jill Britton, 2001, Published by Dale Seymore Publications.

ISBN: 0-7690-2782-2

A copy of the review from "Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School" may be found at http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/revpolypast.pdf

The companion website at http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/jbpolyhedra.htm has also been very useful to me as a teacher.

There are also three books I would suggest to add to the "10.2 Undergraduate level" section.

• Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen, "Mathematical reflections: In a room with many mirrors." Corrected edition, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996. ISBN 0387947701

The AMS review of this book and the next can be read at http://www.ams.org/notices/200302/rev-korner.pdf

• Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen, "Mathematical Vistas: From a room with many windows, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics," Springer-Verlag, New York, 2010. ISBN 1441928677

The MAA review for this book can be read at http://www.maa.org/reviews/vistas.html

• Peter Hilton, Jean Pedersen, "A mathematical tapestry: Demonstrating the beautiful unity of mathematics," Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010. ISBN 0521128218

I could not find a review of this book, probably because it is so recent.

Thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you too for all of the contributions to this great resource. JeffHoop (talk) 16:50, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Four books by Jean Pedersen, all of them removed yesterday per wp:UNDUE, wp:PROMO and wp:COI (see attempt and warning), and proposed again today by a new account. I.M.O this article already has a sufficiently large (if not too large) amount of book referals. DVdm (talk) 18:26, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

At least some of these books are clearly relevant. JeffHoop is not an original author and so I think we should accept the first approach as an honest if unfortunately politically incorrect attempt to add some worthwhile books to the list, with Jeff now stepping in to try and smooth things over. If the AMS and other reviews bear out the relevance of the other books, I'd be happy to accept Jeff's recommendations. I'll take a loook as soon as I have time.

Meanwhile I agree that the list is getting too long to fit here. I was waiting for just this point before moving it to its own page. Maybe now is the time?

— Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 17:51, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

Need to establish relevance

Having read the reviews linked, for three of these books there is no evidence of significant content about polyhedra. Can anyone who has read them give a brief summary of their relevance? They are:

• Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen, "Mathematical reflections: In a room with many mirrors."

• Peter Hilton, Derek Holton, Jean Pedersen, "Mathematical Vistas: From a room with many windows, Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics,"

• Peter Hilton, Jean Pedersen, "A mathematical tapestry: Demonstrating the beautiful unity of mathematics,"

— Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 13:35, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Reviewed the books and am embarrassed that the recommendations in this section are incorrect. Only the last book "Tapestry" has substantial polyhedral material (8 of the 17 chapters). All three texts were written as a series of sorts and they got mixed up in my mind. In "Tapestry,"

* 4 of the chapters discuss construction techniques for polyhedra,

* 1 chapter deals with symmetries of the cube, octahedron, and tetrahedron,

* 1 chapter regarding the consequences of extending the face planes of polyhedra,

* 1 chapter discusses connections between the Euler Characteristic and Descartes' angular dificiency, and there is

* 1 chapter on collapsoids and their links to combinatorics.

Overall, the book describes the interconnections of many areas of mathematics. It links polyhedra to paperfolding, number theory, algebra, symmetry, and combinatorics.

Hence, I retract the first two recommendations "Vistas" and "Reflections." I am sorry for my previously over enthusiastic recommendation.—JeffHoop (talk) 00:30, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Jeff, thank you for your honest reply. No worries - I have made worse mistakes in my time. I'll add the Tapestry book to the list. — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 11:15, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

Alert: lists of publications in Articles for deletion

Some lists of books have been added to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. You can find the discussions here. RockMagnetist (talk) 22:52, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Book Suggestion from User:D0mdib7

May I also suggest

• "The symmetries of things" (by John H. Conway, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and Heidi Burgiel). A. K. Peters, Wellesley, MA, 2008, ISBN 1568812205. It's not by any means exclusively about Polyhedra but contains some rather significant reflections on them. It is for example a reference for the Wikipedia page on [| Convex Uniform Honeycombs]

— Preceding unsigned comment added by D0mdib7 (talk • contribs) 12:20, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

It's a book about symmetry. If we have a list of books about symmetry, it would be on it. Some polyhedra have symmetry but symmetry is not really a defining property of polyhedra. —David Eppstein (talk) 15:17, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

Blocking of OABot

Hey! Is there any reason OABot is specifically denied from editing this page? The template was initially added in Special:Diff/979458915, but later removed in Special:Diff/1022956826 as the issue had been apparently fixed in the templates. The template was later re-added in Special:Diff/1023581372 after it apparently broke citations again. If I may ask - what specifically is being broken here from the addition of |doi-access=free? I don't see any issues currently arising in the versions with doi-access, so I'm not sure.

Pinging David Eppstein as they seem to have initiated the denial both times. Aidan9382 _(talk) 19:47, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

It was, specifically, the addition of doi-access=free, which at that time broke the citations. It caused the doi to be used as an external link on the title of the reference, but this caused an error when the reference used |title=none. The choice of |title=none was made because book reviews do not usually have separate titles from the book they review (and often are listed as having ridiculous titles like "Treks into intuitive geometry: the world of polygons and polyhedra by Jin Akiyama and Kiyoko Matsunaga, pp. 425, {\textsterling}44.99 (hard), {ISBN} 978-4-431-55841-5, Springer (2015)." for the Fox review of Treks into Intuitive Geometry). The citation templates have since been fixed to avoid autolinking the title when there is no title to autolink, preventing this error from happening, so the bot denial can probably be removed again. —David Eppstein (talk) 20:31, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments! I'll remove the denial for now, but if issues arrise, feel free to add it back again. Aidan9382 _(talk) 20:35, 8 June 2022 (UTC)