5pm - 6pm
Friday 17 February 2023
The Platonic solids and their 4-dimensional counterparts
A seminar in the Amazing Maths Seminar Series designed to give undergraduate mathematics students a flavour of mathematics research beyond the core curriculum.
39/40 AA 04
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 7XH
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Abstract
The fact that there are precisely 5 Platonic solids mystified the ancient Greeks. They tried to find a deeper meaning to this number by relating them to the classical elements. The mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler tried to do the same, by relating them to the planets in the solar system. Of course, our imaginations are not limited to the world we physically live in, and we can ask what the counterparts to these shapes are in 4-dimensions, and how many of them there are there.