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  1. Piero della Francesca (1415–1492) was an Italian painter and geometer of the early Renaissance.

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Klain, D.A. Tetrahedra with Congruent Facet Pairs. Math Intelligencer 45, 251–255 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-022-10228-4

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