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work_u5qqyeobgfb3rg2g4npeuuyzh4	David R. Lloyd	Symmetry and Beauty in Plato	2010	11	.pdf	application/pdf	5695	347	66	Plato has a very abstract concept of beauty, and when he uses beauty, and the long mathematical approach to symmetry starts with the Timaeus. Keywords: history; symmetry; proportion; Plato; Timaeus; elements Theaetetus on the regular solids which forms the base on which Plato builds the second half of his discussing Plato and Theaetetus, du Sautoy's book illustrates some very early examples of symmetric symmetry, the mathematical importance of it was beginning to emerge in Plato's time, and there is particularly beautiful, and this correlates well with the use of spherical symmetry in the Timaeus, Plato makes no reference to beauty in this section of the Meno, but in the Timaeus, Constructions of equilateral triangles; a) An apparently simple species; b) Plato's Having constructed the equilateral triangle, Plato then assembles four of these into a tetrahedron, Plato, he has preserved the regularity of the bodies by using his composition of the triangles.	./cache/work_u5qqyeobgfb3rg2g4npeuuyzh4.pdf	./txt/work_u5qqyeobgfb3rg2g4npeuuyzh4.txt