Platonic Solids Essay

I think that there are exactly five regular polyhedra, and I intend to prove why there are exactly five polyhedra. Ok, firstly, we need to identify what the five polyhedra are. They are the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the icosahedron, and the dodecahedron. All of these are regular polyhedra have something in common. For each shape, each of its faces are the same regular polygon, and the same number of faces meet at a vertex. This is the rule for forming regular polyhedra. Now we need to analyze the shapes of the faces, and the number of them meeting at a vertex. …