Welcome to the Snub Disphenoid

Welcome!

Welcome to my blog: The Snub Disphenoid. This is my first post to this blog as well as the first nugget of content that I've published online! I am currently in college in the UK studying Maths, Physics and Computer Science, and aptly I will be studying Maths with Computation next year in university.

Snub Disphenoid

Above is the snub disphenoid, also known as a Siamese dodecahedron, triangular dodecahedron, trigonal dodecahedron, or dodecadeltahedron. It is defined as a convex polyhedron with 12 equilateral triangles as its faces, the 84th Johnson solid, and less commonly as a "square antiprism", whatever that means... 

Breaking the name down, 'snub' has its own slightly confusing mathematical definition, which you can read about here. It also has a more widely used definition: 

To insult someone by not giving them any attention or treating them as if they are not important                                                                                                  -the Cambridge Dictionary

Though I don't intend to convey that message, I'm playfully calling my posts 'snubs' as a clever twist on the word. 'Disphenoid' surprisingly doesn't have a commonly used alternate definition, but I feel like it's cool enough to warrant its place in my name regardless. If anything, it sounds like some sci-fi robot that to some extent mirrors the nerdiness of my page. 'Snub disphenoid' is ambiguous enough to allow me to talk about whatever I want (to an extent), namely things relating to mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering, and perhaps linguistics, philosophy or any other interests that I inherit over the years. 

Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy my future content, which will be coming soon (if I'm not too lazy). Ironically, I'm finishing this in the summer after college, two years after I started writing it in the summer after secondary school. Life happens, I guess.

~Afjal