Canonical Structures Inside the Platonic Solids - Tetrahedron Symmetry - Lecture 49
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This lecture investigates the tetrahedron’s opposite edges and the three-fold symmetry within its four-fold structure, connecting the geometry to the symmetric group S₃.
Syllabus
The tetrahedron
There are 3 pairs of opposite edges
Geometrical approach to a pair of opposite edges
Three-ness from four-ness
Symmetries of the tetrahedron
The symmetric group S3
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