The cube
(or hexahedron) is one of the five Platonic solids.
A regular, convex polyhedron wich have six faces.
In
three-dimensional space, a
Platonic solid is a
regular,
convex polyhedron. It is constructed by
congruent regular polygonal faces with the same number of faces meeting at each
vertex. Five solids meet those criteria, and each is named after its number of faces.
Tetrahedron(four faces),
Cube(or hexahedron) (six faces),
Octahedron (eight faces),
Dodecahedron(twelve faces),
Icosahedron(twenty faces)
Geometers have studied the
mathematical beauty and
symmetry of the Platonic solids for thousands of years.
They are named for the
ancient Greek philosopher Plato who theorized in his dialogue, the
Timaeus, that the
classical elements were made of these regular solids.