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Some Interesting Octahedral Compounds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

M. J. Wenninger*
Affiliation:
St. Augustine’s College, Nassau, Bahamas

Extract

In the last paragraph of an article entitled “Octahedra Inscribed in a Cube” by T. Bakos, Math. Gazette, Vol. XLIII pp. 17-20, (1959), the following statement is made: “About a cube (±b, ±b, ±b) one can circumscribe 3 regular octahedra (the edges of the octahedra through the vertices of the cube); their vertices are:

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1968

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