Polytopes and Symmetry

Name: Polytopes and Symmetry
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ISBN: 9780521277396

ISBN-10: 0521277396

ISBN-13: 9780521277396

Edition: 1984

Authors: Stewart A. Robertson, J. W. S. Cassels, N. J. Hitchin

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Convex polytopes are the analogues in space of any dimension of convex plane polygons and of convex polyhedra in ordinary space. This book describes a fresh approach to the classification of these objects according to their symmetry properties, based on ideas of topology and transformation group theory. Although there is considerable agreement with traditional treatments, a number of new concepts emerge that present classical ideas in a quite new way. For example, the family of regular convex polytopes is extended to the family of 'perfect polytopes'. Thus the familiar set of five Platonic polyhedra is replaced by the less familiar set of nine perfect polyhedra. Among the many unsolved…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/26/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 132
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Preface


Synopsis



The space of polytopes



Combinatorial structure



Symmetry equivalence



Products and sums



Polygons



Polyhedra


Concluding remarks


Bibliography


Index of symbols


Index of names


General index