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Louis Poinsot (French pronunciation: [lwi pwɛ̃so]; 3
January 1777 – 5
December 1859) was a
French mathematician and physicist.
Poinsot was the inventor...
- In geometry, a Kepler–
Poinsot polyhedron is any of four
regular star polyhedra. They may be
obtained by
stellating the
regular convex dodecahedron and...
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Poinsot is a worn
lunar impact crater that is
located at the
northern part of the Moon on the far side. It lies to the
south of the
walled plain Rozhdestvenskiy...
- In
classical mechanics,
Poinsot's construction (after
Louis Poinsot) is a
geometrical method for
visualizing the torque-free
motion of a
rotating rigid...
- In mathematics,
Poinsot's spirals are two
spirals represented by the
polar equations r = a csch ( n θ ) {\displaystyle r=a\ \operatorname {csch} (n\theta...
- John of St. Thomas, O.P., born João
Poinsot (also
called John
Poinsot in English; 9 July 1589 – 15 June 1644), was a
Portuguese Dominican friar, Thomist...
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Thierry Poinsot (born 22
March 1958), is a
French researcher,
research director at the CNRS,
researcher at the
Institute of
Fluid Mechanics in Toulouse...
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polyhedra (the
Platonic solids), and four
regular star
polyhedra (the Kepler–
Poinsot polyhedra),
making nine
regular polyhedra in all. In addition,
there are...
- In geometry, the
small stellated dodecahedron is a Kepler-
Poinsot polyhedron,
named by
Arthur Cayley, and with Schläfli
symbol {5⁄2,5}. It is one of four...
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numbers is 5/2. They are thus
analogous to the
regular nonconvex Kepler–
Poinsot polyhedra,
which are in turn
analogous to the pentagram.
Their names given...
