History
- 1900: Thorold Gosset enumerated the list of semiregular convex polytopes with regular cells (Platonic solids) in his publication On the Regular and Semi-Regular Figures in Space of n Dimensions, including one regular cubic honeycomb, and two semiregular forms with tetrahedra and octahedra.
- 1905: Alfredo Andreini enumerated 25 of these tessellations.
- 1991: Norman Johnson's manuscript Uniform Polytopes identified the complete list of 28.
- 1994: Branko Grünbaum, in his paper Uniform tilings of 3-space, also independently enumerated all 28, after discovering errors in Andreini's publication. He found the 1905 paper, which listed 25, had 1 wrong, and 4 being missing. Grünbaum states in this paper that Norman Johnson deserves priority for achieving the same enumeration in 1991. He also mentions that I. Alexeyev of Russia had contacted him regarding a putative enumeration of these forms, but that Grünbaum was unable to verify this at the time.
- 2006: George Olshevsky, in his manuscript Uniform Panoploid Tetracombs, along with repeating the derived list of 11 convex uniform tilings, and 28 convex uniform honeycombs, expands a further derived list of 143 convex uniform tetracombs (Honeycombs of uniform polychora in 4-space).
Only 14 of the convex uniform polyhedra appear in these patterns:
- three of the five Platonic solids,
- six of the thirteen Archimedean solids, and
- five of the infinite family of prisms.
Read more about this topic: Convex Uniform Honeycomb
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