Magnus Wenninger
Magnus J. Wenninger OSB (October 31, 1919 – February 17, 2017) was an American mathematician. He worked on constructing polyhedron models. He also wrote the first book on their construction. He was also a Benedictine monk.[1] He was born in Park Falls, Wisconsin. His parents were German.
Wenninger died on February 17, 2017 at Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota. He was 97.[2]
Magnus Wenninger Media
An artistic model created by Father Wenninger called Order in Chaos, representing a chiral subset of triangles of a 16-frequency icosahedral geodesic sphere
References
- ↑ Banchoff, Thomas. Father Magnus and his polyhedrons. LAB (June 2008). Retrieved February 20, 2017.
- ↑ Funeral of Fr. Magnus Wenninger, OSB. College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University (February 18, 2017). Retrieved February 20, 2017.[dead link]
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