Classification of Platonic Solids
Up to similarity, the Platonic solids are the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
Proposition 10.2
There are, up to similarity, exactly five Platonic solids:
- the tetrahedron, with 4 triangular faces and 4 vertices,
- the cube, with 6 square faces and 8 vertices,
- the octahedron, with 8 triangular faces and 6 vertices,
- the dodecahedron, with 12 pentagonal faces and 20 vertices,
- the icosahedron, with 20 triangular faces and 12 vertices.
Related
Stated in
- Proposition 10.2§10 Platonic Solids
