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n-dimensional enrichment for Further Mathematicians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Martin Griffiths*
Affiliation:
Colchester County High School for Girls, Norman Way, Colchester CO3 3US

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There are infinitely many regular polygons, but we find, on extending the idea of polygons to three dimensions, that there are only five regular polyhedra, the Platonic solids. What happens then if we try to extend this idea beyond three dimensions? It turns out that, of the five Platonic solids, just the regular tetrahedron, cube and regular octahedron have analogues in all higher dimensions, the so-called regular polytopes. Brief descriptions of these mathematical objects are to be found in [1], for example.

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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2004

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References

1. Cadwell, J. H., Topics in Recreational Mathematics, Cambridge University Press (1966).Google Scholar