A soccer ball is stitched or glued together from 32 polygons, 12 of them five-sided and 20 sixsided. The traditional way to color such a ball is to paint the pentagons black and the hexagons white. A soccer bail is an intriguing puzzle to a mathematician.
A soccer ball is stitched or glued together from 32 polygons, 12 of them five-sided and 20 sixsided. The traditional way to color such a ball is to paint the pentagons black and the hexagons…