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Due to the COVID-19 crisis, all Mathematics Department operations are being performed remotely, including instruction.
The main department telephone lines at (212) 650-5346,7 are being transferred to a personal phone outside the college and will be answered roughly between 11am and 7pm on Monday and Wednesday, and 9am to 5pm on Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, when the college is not closed for a holiday or snow.
Preferably, email your concerns and questions to math@ccny.cuny.edu, which is also being monitored.
Staff members and administrators are either forwarding their telephone lines or monitoring their campus voicemail on a regular basis.
The Assistant Chair, Prof. Bak, and the Department Advisors for non-majors, Mr. Park and Mr. Turner are holding regular online advising hours during which you can contact them in real time. The details can found on our Administration page which can be accessed via the left side bar or you can click here.
Instructors can be contacted via email. You can find a listing of instructors by clicking here.
We hope everyone stays safe and healthy, and we look forward to seeing each other in person once again.
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Meet the Platonic Solids: Dodecahedron
The Platonic solids have been known since antiquity, and they play a prominent role in Plato's description of the physical world. The planar faces of each solid are identical polygons. Only equilateral triangles, squares and regular pentagons appear.
Although the platonic solids seem to be purely geometric objects, they embody a number of deep algebraic features. Their symmetries, for example, relate to the solution of polynomial equations of low degree.
If you would like to learn more about Platonic solids, you can start here.