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The ancient Greek philosopher Plato loved five special polyhedral (Fig.5.1.1). These were the solids with equivalent faces composed of congruent regular convex polygons. Today, we know them as Platonic solids; and there are exactly five of them (Fig. 5.1.2).
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Akiyama, J., Matsunaga, K. (2015). Platonic Solids. In: Treks into Intuitive Geometry. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55843-9_5
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