Polytopes and Symmetry

Download or read book Polytopes and Symmetry written by Stewart A. Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-01-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a fresh approach to the classification of of convex plane polygons and of convex polyhedra 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.