Flexagon
Flexágono
- Date
- 1939 · confidence medium
- Place
- Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Credited to
- Arthur Harold Stone
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
A flat paper model that, when flexed, reveals hidden faces beyond the two originally visible; discovered by chance by mathematician Arthur H. Stone while trimming paper strips at Princeton.
What it led to
- Founding of the Princeton Flexagon Committee
- Popularization by Martin Gardner in Scientific American
- Topological and combinatorial studies of paper folding