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There are generic geometric names for the most common polyhedra. The 5 Platonic solids are called a tetrahedron , hexahedron , octahedron , dodecahedron and icosahedron with 4, 6, 8, 12, and 20 sides respectively.
A polytope is a geometric object with flat sides, which exists in any general number of dimensions. The following list of polygons, polyhedra and polytopes gives the names of various classes of polytopes and lists some specific examples.
In geometry, a polyhedron (pl.: polyhedra or polyhedrons; from Greek πολύ (poly-) 'many' and ἕδρον (-hedron) 'base, seat') is a three-dimensional figure with flat polygonal faces, straight edges and sharp corners or vertices. The term "polyhedron" may refer either to a solid figure or to its boundary surface.
image of polyhedron; name of polyhedron; alternate names (in brackets) Wythoff symbol; Numbering systems: W - number used by Wenninger in polyhedra models, U - uniform indexing, K - Kaleido indexing, C - numbering used in Coxeter et al. 'Uniform Polyhedra'. Number of vertices V, edges E, Faces F and number of faces by type.
The smallest polyhedron is the tetrahedron with 4 triangular faces, 6 edges, and 4 vertices. Named polyhedra primarily come from the families of platonic solids, Archimedean solids, Catalan solids, and Johnson solids, as well as dihedral symmetry families including the pyramids, bipyramids, prisms, antiprisms, and trapezohedrons.
A regular polyhedron is identified by its Schläfli symbol of the form {n, m}, where n is the number of sides of each face and m the number of faces meeting at each vertex. There are 5 finite convex regular polyhedra (the Platonic solids), and four regular star polyhedra (the Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra), making nine regular polyhedra in all. In ...
Coxeter, Longuet-Higgins & Miller (1954) published the list of uniform polyhedra. Sopov (1970) proved their conjecture that the list was complete. In 1974, Magnus Wenninger published his book Polyhedron models, which lists all 75 nonprismatic uniform polyhedra, with many previously unpublished names given to them by Norman Johnson.
This category lists terms related to Polyhedra, for individual polyhedra see the sub categories: Category:Uniform polyhedra includes subcategories below AND 53 nonconvex forms: Category:Platonic solids for the five convex regular polyhedra. Category:Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra for the four non-convex regular polyhedra.