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Symmetries of Regular Polyhedra

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This lecture provides the underlying reasoning for the parametric construction of exercise 6-EXa, where the use of symmetries sheds new light on the conclusion of Euclid's Elements. It delves into the historical background of symmetries, highlighting their significance in the context of regular polyhedra. The lecture explores the concept of commensurability and the evolution of the modern understanding of symmetry. Detailed examination of the symmetries of regular polyhedra is provided, focusing on rotations and their role in leaving a figure globally invariant. The lecture also discusses the number of symmetries of polyhedra, the relationship between the number of symmetries and the faces of the polyhedron, and the significance of angles in rotations.

Instructor

Bernard Cache

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Ontological neighbourhood

Mathematics

Geometry: Euclidean geometry

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Euclid's Elements

Euclid's Elements (Στοιχεῖα Stoikheîa) is a mathematical treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria, Ptolemaic Egypt 300 BC. It is a collection of definitions, postulates, propositions (theorems and constructions), and mathematical proofs of the propositions. The books cover plane and solid Euclidean geometry, elementary number theory, and incommensurable lines. Elements is the oldest extant large-scale deductive treatment of mathematics.

Regular skew polyhedron

In geometry, the regular skew polyhedra are generalizations to the set of regular polyhedra which include the possibility of nonplanar faces or vertex figures. Coxeter looked at skew vertex figures which created new 4-dimensional regular polyhedra, and much later Branko Grünbaum looked at regular skew faces. Infinite regular skew polyhedra that span 3-space or higher are called regular skew apeirohedra. According to Coxeter, in 1926 John Flinders Petrie generalized the concept of regular skew polygons (nonplanar polygons) to regular skew polyhedra.

Semiregular polyhedron

In geometry, the term semiregular polyhedron (or semiregular polytope) is used variously by different authors. In its original definition, it is a polyhedron with regular polygonal faces, and a symmetry group which is transitive on its vertices; today, this is more commonly referred to as a uniform polyhedron (this follows from Thorold Gosset's 1900 definition of the more general semiregular polytope). These polyhedra include: The thirteen Archimedean solids.

Euclid

Euclid (ˈjuːklɪd; Εὐκλείδης; 300 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the Elements treatise, which established the foundations of geometry that largely dominated the field until the early 19th century. His system, now referred to as Euclidean geometry, involved new innovations in combination with a synthesis of theories from earlier Greek mathematicians, including Eudoxus of Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus.

Euclid's theorem

Euclid's theorem is a fundamental statement in number theory that asserts that there are infinitely many prime numbers. It was first proved by Euclid in his work Elements. There are several proofs of the theorem. Euclid offered a proof published in his work Elements (Book IX, Proposition 20), which is paraphrased here. Consider any finite list of prime numbers p1, p2, ..., pn. It will be shown that at least one additional prime number not in this list exists. Let P be the product of all the prime numbers in the list: P = p1p2.

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