Resumen de Kepler y el dodecaedro rómbico

Roberto Cardil Ricol

• The principal goal of this article is to study the polyhedron called the Rhombic Dodecahedron. The Rhombic Dodecahedron is a simple, beautiful and interesting polyhedron that can delight young and adults alike. Johannes Kepler discovered it and we are going to follow Kepler's wonderful mind in our travel exploring its properties in an historical context. Our main source will be Kepler's book 'The Six-Cornered Snowfiake'. How the Rhombic Dodecahedron was conceived is fascinating because Kepler discovered it inspired in Nature, taking a deep look into how bees build their cells. To follow all these ideas is not easy without real mathematical models. A second objective o/ this article is to encourage readers to build their own polyhedra and to play with them. Building polyhedra is a relaxing activity and the results are appealing because of their beauty. But there is more: we learn mathematical properties of this bodies when we build, look and touch them