About this project

This is thesis project page of Elizabeth Slavkovsky who wrote this thesis towards a masters in the Graduate program for Mathematics for teaching. The thesis subject is on 3D printing (a special case of rapid prototyping) in education and has the title:

"Feasibility study for teaching geometry and other topics using three-dimensional printers"

The thesis [PDF] is now in print. A paper: Thinking like Archimedes with a 3D printer [PDF]. [ArXiv].

September 30, 2016: 3D printing experiments in mathematics. A talk given at the 2016 SIAM conference on Applied mathematics education:
August 29,2013: Calabi-Yau files
July 3, 2013: Gregor Luetolf has printed the gem in a total printing time of 200 hours. Wow.

June 24, 2013:An extended version of the Trieste article with more illustrations, source code and insight which came from the workshop. ArXiv. And the talk:
May 3, 2013: Liz has won a thesis prize for her work.
Apr 29, 2013: Open book on Low cost 3D printing PDF contains an article "Illustrating Mathematics using 3D Printers". Graphics (1200x1200 pixel files) Youtube channel.
Feb 3: "Drinkable proof" Mathematica code page.
Jan 30, 2013: A story about the project appeared in the "New Scientist", with Gallery.

Feb 1: Archimedes proved in 3D, Feb 2: Science junkie, Feb 7: 3dprinting industry, Mar 14: Extension Hub.

Some polyhedra : Click on the white pictures to get the STL file which can be 3D printed. To see the Mathematica code which produced the pictures, see here. First the Archimedean solids (Happy 2300 year birthday Archimedes!) and then the Catalan solids: