Monday, October 21, 2013


Word of the week:     Polytope


which exists in any general number of dimensions. 
polygon is a polytope in two dimensions, a polyhedron in three dimensions, 
and so on in higher dimensions (such as a polychoron in four 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)

Graphs of six convex regular 4-polytopes
4-simplex t0.svg
4-simplex
(5-cell)
4-cube t3.svg
4-orthoplex
(16-cell)
4-cube t0.svg
4-cube
(8-cell, Tesseract)
24-cell t0 F4.svg
24-cell
120-cell graph H4.svg
120-cell
600-cell graph H4.svg

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