Magnus Wenninger

Magnus J. Wenninger ( born October 31, 1919 in Park Falls, Wisconsin) is an American Benedictine monk and mathematician who is known for polyhedron models, about which he wrote several books.

Wenninger, the son of German immigrants, was educated at the Benedictine St. John's University in St. Joseph (Minnesota). It was established in 1940 Benedictine monk and took the name Magnus. Since he was provided by the Order as a teacher, he studied then at the University of Ottawa, where he also heard a logic lecture and his Master's thesis in philosophy wrote in 1946 about the concept of number at Roger Bacon and Albertus Magnus. He also taught mathematics at a school of the Order (St. Augustine 's College ) in the Bahamas in Nassau. In 1961 he made ​​another master's degree in Mathematics Education at Columbia University Teachers College. In 1981 he returned to the St. John's Monastery.

In the 1960s, his first essays on polyhedra appeared. For a book project he had to present models of all 75 uniform polyhedra the publisher ( Cambridge University Press). These include Platonic solids, Archimedean solids and star body. For the edition 1974, he came to a total of 119 polyhedral models. In other books, he also dealt with the projections on the polyhedra circumscribed sphere and the dual models to the uniform polyhedra.

Writings

• Polyhedron Models, Cambridge University Press, 1974
• Spherical Models, Cambridge University Press, 1979
• Dual Models, Cambridge University Press, 1983