Named for Plato, who theorized that the classical elements were made of these regular polyhedrons, three of the Platonic solids are composed of equilateral triangles: the tetrahedron, octahedron, and ...
https://doi.org/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.1.70 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/amer.math.monthly.124.1.70 We provide a geometric explanation, based on ...