One of Goldberg's polyhedra. Image: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

One of Goldberg’s polyhedra. Image: Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Platonic solids are well known in the mathematic world. But now some mathematicians are re-evaluating some three-dimensional solids (I know, that’s redundant) and believe they belong to a whole new class of solids.

As happens often around here, io9 has the rest of the story.