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Platonic solid
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Platonic solid

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The five regular polyhedra or Platonic solids.

In geometry, another name for a regular polyhedron, one of five possible three-dimensional figures with all its faces the same size and shape.



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He reviews linear algebras, then describes the group and its subsets, including homomorphism of two groups and the proper symmetric group of a regular polyhedron, the theory of linear representations of groups, the three-dimensional rotation group, permutation groups, Lie groups and Lie algebras, unitary groups, real orthogonal groups and symplectic groups.
 
 
 
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