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Mathematician creates new shape with 8 sides, 26 edges, and 3 holes
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Mathematician creates new shape with 8 sides, 26 edges, and 3 holes

So: mathematicians are still discovering new shapes, and this one is quite the curiosity! Ruslan Mizhaev introduced the genus-3 polyhedron, a shape with eight faces, 26 edges, and three holes, which is pretty wild compared to your everyday cube. Every pair of faces shares at least one edge, and three faces meet at every vertex, making it a fascinating geometric puzzle. It’s a toroidal polytope, meaning it has holes like a doughnut, and while it might not exist in nature, it opens new doors in geometry and topology. I love how this shows math is still full of surprises!
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