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

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. The end result is an oddity with 26 edges and 24 vertices, with 20 face pairs sharing a single edge while eight others share two faces. And as if the con