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Explores the construction of a regular pentagon using Euclid's method and discusses historical constructions by Euclid and Ptolemy.

Explores the definitions and symmetries of regular polyhedra, focusing on the five known convex regular polyhedra from ancient times.

Explores the historical development of approximating ellipses with ovals and the challenges in machining trajectories.

Explores geometric transformations, invariant properties, and mean relationships in modern geometry.

Explores optimization problems to find global extrema of functions over domains.

Explores the definitions and symmetries of regular polyhedra, shedding light on ancient geometry and modern mathematical formalization.