Word of the week: Polytope
which exists in any general number of dimensions.
A polygon is a polytope in two dimensions, a polyhedron in three dimensions,
When referring to an n-dimensional generalization, the term n-polytope is used.
For example, a polygon is a 2-polytope, a polyhedron is a 3-polytope, and a polychoron is a 4-polytope.
The term was coined by the mathematician Hoppe, writing in German,
and was later introduced to English mathematicians by Alicia Boole Stott, the daughter of logician George Boole.
(From Wikipedia)
4-simplex (5-cell) | 4-orthoplex (16-cell) | 4-cube (8-cell, Tesseract) |
24-cell | 120-cell |
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