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A polyhedron is a solid whose surface consists of polygon faces. A polyhedron is regular or Platonic if its faces are congruent regular polygons and if its polyhedral angles are all congruent. Five regular polyhedra are the following.
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Anglin, W.S. (1994). The Pythagoreans and Polyhedra. In: Mathematics: A Concise History and Philosophy. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0875-4_6
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