Serious Fun with Flexagons A Compendium and Guide /

• Main Author: Pook, L.P (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 164
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Geometry.; History.; Engineering.; Engineering, general.; Mathematics, general.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

A flexagon is a motion structure that has the appearance of a ring of hinged polygons. It can be flexed to display different pairs of faces, usually in cyclic order. Flexagons can be appreciated as toys or puzzles, as a recreational mathematics topic, and as the subject of serious mathematical study...

Table of Contents:

• Polygon Rings
• Fundamental Nets
• Fundamental Edge Flexagons
• Fundamental Skeletal and Point Flexagons
• Fundamental Compound Edge Flexagons
• Irregular Cycle Flexagons
• Degenerate Flexagons
• Irregular Ring Even Edge Flexagons
• Irregular Polygon Edge Flexagons
• Complex Flexagons
• Miscellaneous Flexagons.