Compound Polytopes: Polygons, Tilings, Polyhedra

This highly illustrated book presents the regular and semiregular polyhedra in a new and exciting manner. Choosing an alternative more inclusive way to define polygons, the compound polygons can be usefully added to a polygonal vocabulary that then allows compounds tilings and polyhedra to be assembled. These in turn become the building blocks for compound closepacks and hypersolids leading to further forms in higher dimensions

Patrick Taylor was born and brought up in Truro, Cornwall. He was educated at Truro school and the Architectural Association. Now with an MA in conservation studies (York) and BSc in mathematics (OU), he works as a conservation architect, based near Ipswich, Suffolk. His previous publications include a county-by-county series of books on tollhouses, books on Timber circles and drainage windmills and The Complete Polyhedra, a series on polyhedron geometry.