Meissner Tetrahedra
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The two Meissner bodies are solids of constant width. Others are spheres and certain solids of revolution.
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Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (January 2014)
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[1] B. Kawohl and C. Weber. "Meissner's Mysterious Bodies." (Jun 19, 2011) www.mi.uni-koeln.de/mi/Forschung/Kawohl/kawohl/pub100.pdf.
[2] E. Meissner, "Über Punktmengen konstanter Breite," Vierteljahrsschrift der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zürich, 56(42–50), 1911. www.archive.org/stream/vierteljahrsschr56natu# page/n53/mode/2up.
[3] E. Meissner and F. Schilling, "Drei Gipsmodelle von Flächen konstanter Breite," Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik, 60(92–94), 1912.
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