Colin Beveridgeicecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyz
May 26, 2026, 11:11 AMI like the Pope
The Pope's got notes on polytopes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2vMn45YuvI&list=PL2Qp-duB3X7ED5XoaWQ8NvMaC0M7Xp0aG&index=3
![Post from Joseph Nolla, SJ:
“Pope Leo was a math major? I wonder what his encyclicals will be like”
Like this:
This concept can also be illustrated by the
image of a multifaceted polyhedron, [19] in
which the one truth of the Gospel is reflected
from different angles.](https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/116/640/563/251/672/766/original/fd0005d12af6b9d4.png)
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- Colin Beveridgeicecolbeveridge@mathstodon.xyzMay 26, 2026, 11:29 AM
In case anyone wants, uh, chapter and verse, it's para 25 here: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html
𝓙. 𝓜.tpfto@mathstodon.xyzMay 26, 2026, 12:54 PM@icecolbeveridge at this point, I should prolly bring up the fact that one of the people who was an authority on constructing polytope models was a Benedictine monk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Wenninger