Shaping Space: Exploring Polyhedra in Nature, Art, and the Geometrical Imagination 2013th Edition

An excellent introductory summary of polyhedral (polyhedrons) as they are found in nature as well as intellectual abstractions, e.g., the Platonic solids.Mathematics are added as a natural description of what is observed -- the perfect way math should be used as a descriptive language.The book points the way to more detailed studies, ranging from crystal structures in elements (Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, etc.), to architecture.Nice starting point for topology spinning off from Euler's formula: vertices plus faces minus edges = a number; it's 2 for most common polyhedral.

I returned my kindle version of the book 5' after downloading. The book contains the correct description of the Euler formula, but the formula depicted a few lines below is wrong - for me this is a non acceptable quality issue and a no go.