Wheeler’s more ingenious plane dissections involved polyhedra, cut into smaller polyhedra, that could then be rearranged to form other polyhedra. He and his students first made these models of paper.

Although research in polyhedra has a long history of over 4,000 years, most of that research has focused on highly symmetrical polyhedra and polyhedral tiling, and there has been no mathematical ...

Wheeler and his students made some models of polyhedra divided into smaller polyhedra, often of equal size and shape, without attempting to transform the pieces into other polyhedra. National Museum ...