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  2. Exceptional object - Wikipedia

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    The Platonic solids, seen here in an illustration from Johannes Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596), are an early example of exceptional objects. The symmetries of three-dimensional space can be classified into two infinite families—the cyclic and dihedral symmetries of n-sided polygons—and five exceptional types of symmetry, namely the symmetry groups of the Platonic solids.

  3. Chirality (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    An object that is not chiral is said to be achiral. A chiral object and its mirror image are said to be enantiomorphs. The word chirality is derived from the Greek χείρ (cheir), the hand, the most familiar chiral object; the word enantiomorph stems from the Greek ἐναντίος (enantios) 'opposite' + μορφή (morphe) 'form'.

  4. Similarity (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Any two pairs of angles are congruent, [4] which in Euclidean geometry implies that all three angles are congruent: [a] If ∠BAC is equal in measure to ∠B'A'C', and ∠ABC is equal in measure to ∠A'B'C', then this implies that ∠ACB is equal in measure to ∠A'C'B' and the triangles are similar. All the corresponding sides are ...

  5. Knowing all the angles: Ancient Babylonians used tricky geometry

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  6. Geometry - Wikipedia

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    Geometry (from Ancient Greek γεωμετρία (geōmetría) ' land measurement '; from γῆ (gê) ' earth, land ' and μέτρον (métron) ' a measure ') [1] is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. [2]

  7. Congruence (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    AAS (angle-angle-side): If two pairs of angles of two triangles are equal in measurement, and a pair of corresponding non-included sides are equal in length, then the triangles are congruent. AAS is equivalent to an ASA condition, by the fact that if any two angles are given, so is the third angle, since their sum should be 180°.

  8. Symmetry (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    A drawing of a butterfly with bilateral symmetry, with left and right sides as mirror images of each other.. In geometry, an object has symmetry if there is an operation or transformation (such as translation, scaling, rotation or reflection) that maps the figure/object onto itself (i.e., the object has an invariance under the transform). [1]

  9. List of mathematical shapes - Wikipedia

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    25 Geometry and other areas of mathematics. 26 Glyphs and symbols. ... Nathaniyal's object; Hyperplexicon; Geometry and other areas of mathematics. Ford circles.