Regular Polytopes (original 1948; edition 1973)

by H. S. M. Coxeter

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A polytope is a geometrical figure bounded by portions of lines, planes, or hyperplanes; e.g., in two dimensions it is a polygon, in three a polyhedron.

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Cantellated tesseract

Cantellation (geometry)

Convex regular polychoron

Convex uniform honeycombs in hyperbolic space

Coxeter–Dynkin diagram

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Order-4 dodecahedral honeycomb

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Order-5 dodecahedral honeycomb

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0486614808, Paperback)

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 edition.

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