/sci/ - Science & Math

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
-Ayn Rand

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110216083123.htm
'Periodic Table of Shapes' to Give a New Dimension to Math

Do any mathematicians want to weigh in on this? I think a mathematical periodic table would be interesting. As an engineer, many of the problems in college were about geometry, so I would be interested in a sum total of geometrical shapes. Think of how easy fluid mechanics and transport phenomena would be if we reduced geometry to a simple table. Obviously the main focus was on physics and 3+ dimensional math, but it seems almost everybody could benefit from an undertaking such as this.