Regular Polytopes
Subtitle: 3rd Edition
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
Description: Foremost book available on polytopes, incorporating ancient Greek and most modern work done on them. Beginning with polygons and polyhedrons, the book moves on to multi-dimensional polytopes in a way that anyone with a basic knowledge of geometry and trigonometry can easily understand. Definitions of symbols. Eight tables plus many diagrams and examples.1963 ed.
Table of contents: label: Section 1
title: Polygongs and Polyhedra; label: Section 1.1
title: Regular Polygons
pagenum: 1; label: Section 1.2
title: Polyhedra
pagenum: 4; label: Section 1.3
title: The five Platonic Solids
pagenum: 5; label: Section 1.4
title: Graphs and Maps
pagenum: 6; label: Section 1.5
title: "A voyage round the world"
pagenum: 8; label: Section 1.6
title: Euler's Formula
pagenum: 9; label: Section 1.7
title: Regular Maps
pagenum: 11; label: Section 1.8
title: Configurations
pagenum: 12; label: Section 1.9
title: Historical remarks
pagenum: 13; label: Section 2
title: Regular and Quasi-Regular Solids; label: Section 2.1
title: Regular Polyhedra
pagenum: 15; label: Section 2.2
title: Reciprocation
pagenum: 17; label: Section 2.3
title: Quasi-regular polyhedra
pagenum: 17; label: Section 2.4
title: Radii and angles
pagenum: 20; label: Section 2.5
title: Descartes' Formula
pagenum: 23