CONVEX POLYHEDRA WITH REGULARITY CONDITIONS AND HILBERT'S THIRD PROBLEM

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This book develops in a systematic way the various regularity conditions imposed on the faces and solid angles of a convex polyhedron, which give rise to the well known sets of solids such as the five bodies of Plato (the regular polyhedra), the eight deltahedra, the ninety-two regular faced polyhedra, etc. Groups of rotations/reflections of the five regular solids, as also their metrical properties are briefly treated. Interesting applications to Pick's theorem and plane tessellations are given. Finally, a solutions to a classical problem of polyhedral decompositions (Hilbert's third problem) is given in the last chapter. Much of the book should be accessible to begining under graduate students.