Fibonacci and Platonic Solids

The math displays are on the first floor.
Pine cones and flowers are used in the cabinet on the left to demonstrate the Fibonacci sequence of numbers.
In the middle cabinet there are three rows of Platonic solids. Each row shows how a black Platonic solid with a white interior changes as its vertices are "cut off" or "truncated" carefully while keeping slices parallel and in such a way that at each stage, all the edges in a given solid are of the same length.
The cabinet on the right contains more information about the Platonic solids. A philosophical school was founded to explore and extol the discoveries and beliefs of the early mathematician Pythagoras. The hexahedron, tetrahedron and octahedron were probably discovered first and associated with the Earth, Fire, and Air, respectively. Later the twenty-faced icosahedron was discovered and, when associated with water, neatly related the regular polyhedra with the belief that all creation was made of the four elements: Earth, Fire, Air and Water.

Arranged by Dr. Richard Kimball and Richard Rand