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flagon

[flag-uhn] / ˈflæg ən /
NOUN
mug
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Indeed, the article which secured him a regular column with Scientific American was about a paper-folding activity called flexagons, discovered in the USA by British postgrad Arthur Stone.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2014

All images of the flexagons shown must fully owned by you.

From Scientific American • Oct. 10, 2014

Necessity is the mother of invention, if sometimes only indirectly, as was the case with structures called flexagons.

From Scientific American • Oct. 10, 2014

Martin Gardner, Scientific American’s long-time Mathematical Games columnist popularized flexagons in his very first article for the magazine in December 1956.

From Scientific American • Oct. 10, 2014

The videos contain a fictionalized account of the discovery of flexagons, also chronicled in Martin Gardner’s first recreational math column for .

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2012




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