At a special event at the Laser Research Center of the University of Szeged, unique Gömböc gifts were presented to Nobel laureates. The Gömböc is the first known convex, homogeneous object with only one stable and one unstable equilibrium point.
In 2007, the Gömböc made its debut on the cover of Mathematical Intelligencer, and it was hailed by the
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The first functioning Gömböc model 001 was gifted by its founders to Vladimir Arnold, the Russian mathematician, who conjectured and inspired this innovation. The gift was given as an acknowledgment of his work as the question whether Gömböc-type objects exist or not was posed by him.
