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Editor's Note: This article was provided by The Conversation UK. The original is here. The work of the Greek polymath Plato has kept millions of people busy for millennia. A few among them have been ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple construction has given them an answer. In 1986, after the space shuttle Challenger ...