Geometry of Footballs and the Cube-shaped Ball

2016-07-21

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Make your own cube football!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/idtkss3bpedl6st/cube-football-shape.png?dl=0

If you want the net for the hilarious "perimeter league" ball I made, here it is:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/561q7hiljt0ht8g/perimeter-football-net.pdf?dl=0

This is the exact premier league ball that I bought:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nike-Pitch-PL-Football-multi-coloured/dp/B012T9XTMA?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-20

Here is the same ball on the US Amazon, but they don’t have that exact colour scheme:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VRJSRJE/ref=sr_1_1?_encoding=UTF8&tag=stanupmath-21

The icosahedral dice I show is a generic spin-down dice I happen to have on my desk. The dodecahedral dice is one of the Maths Gear "Go First" dice:

https://mathsgear.co.uk/products/go-first-dice

1966 football photo by Ben Sutherland, 2009.

Music by Howard Carter

Design by Simon Wright

MATT PARKER: Stand-up Mathematician

Website: http://standupmaths.com/

Maths book: http://makeanddo4D.com/

Nerdy maths toys: http://mathsgear.co.uk/