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Straight-line drawing of regular polyhedra
Find the minimum number of straight lines needed to cover a crossing-free straight-line drawing of the icosahedron $(13\dots 15)$ and of the dodecahedron $(9\dots 10)$ (in the plane).
For example, ...
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Koebe–Andreev–Thurston theorem - where can I find a proof?
Koebe–Andreev–Thurston theorem (known also as the circle packing theorem) says that any planar graph can be realized by a set of (interior-) disjoint disks corresponding to vertices, such that two ...
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How can we find n points on a plane so that as many pairs of points as possible have the same distance?
There are $n$ points on the plane, and we need to maximize the number of pairs of points which have the same Euclidean distance.