Alan Schoen passed away today at the age of 98. Alan was a mathematician best known for his discovery of the #gyroid, an infinitely connected triply periodic minimal surface.

The gyroid is now ubiquitous in #3Ddesign and #3dprinting as well as many other scientific applications pic.twitter.com/ylYpxERmyB

— DaveMakesStuff (@davemakesstuff_) July 27, 2023