Mathematician creates new shape with 8 sides, 26 edges, and 3 holes
Popular Science · 29 Sep 2026

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

Published Sep 29, 2026 4:01 PM EDT It may be hard to believe, but mathematicians are still discovering shapes. The latest three-dimensional example is far stranger than your standard cube or pyramid. Dubbed the genus-3 polyhedron by Ruslan Mizhaev, the independent researcher’s newly identified shape


⬅ Back home Read full article ➡