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Three types of polygons

Figure 2: The points of a plane that are not on a polygon are separated by the polygon into two regions, the “inside” and the “outside.”

Figure 1: A polygon whose vertices are lattice points.

Platonic solids

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Three types of polygons

Figure 2: The points of a plane that are not on a polygon are separated by the polygon into two regions, the “inside” and the “outside.”

Figure 1: A polygon whose vertices are lattice points.

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Topics

hexagon flexagon triangle regular polygon Pascal’s triangle rhombus Heron’s formula parallelogram trihexaflexagon spherical triangle polyhedron Euler characteristic

Key People

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician

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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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