Mathematician creates new shape with 8 sides, 26 edges, and 3 holes

More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. The genus-3 polyhedron is what's known as a toroidal polytope. It may be hard to believe, but mathematicians are still discovering shapes . The latest three-dimensional example is far stranger than your standard cube or pyramid. Dubbed the genus-3 polyhedron by Ruslan Mizhaev, the independent researcher's newly identified shape features eight faces arranged so that every pair shares at least one edge.