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We limit ourselves to a brief glimpse into this vast subject, coniining attention to regular coniigurations in Euclidean space. The groups involved will be discrete and playa fundamental role: they arise even in the definition of the objects we wish to describe, which are natural generalisations to arbitrary dimension d of regular polygons in dimension 2 and polyhedra in dimension 3.
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Johnson, D.L. (2001). Regular Polytopes. In: Symmetries. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0243-4_12
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