Talk:N-skeleton

Polytopes

I'd assume this terminology can apply to polyhedrons and polytopes? Like a tetrahedron has a 0-skeleton as 4 points in space, a 1-skeleton as a 4 vertex, 6 edge complete graph, and 2-skeleton having the 4 faces. In general an n-skeleton of a polytope being composed of the n-faces of it?

Partly I ask, having added a bunch of uncreated links: vertex arrangement, edge arrangement, face arrangement for different polytopes which share the same lower dimensional components. See Uniform polyhedron for examples. (Example cubohemioctahedron and cuboctahedron share the same edge arrangement or 1-skeleton). Tom Ruen 20:38, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Clarity of article could be improved

I've done a little bit of undergrad mathematics and have a bit of an interest in learning more about things like topology and graph theory but I must confess I am having difficulty understanding what this article is talking about.

Could someone add more descriptive explanations of what the jargon actually means so that lay people can understand the article? I believe that this would significantly improve the quality of this article.

Also, if the content of the article could be related to real world applications of the mathematics (if any) that would also make the article more interesting and informative.

--I (talk) 05:59, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

Definition

The article misses the most important part: A precise mathematical definition, what an n-skeleton is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.201.13.222 (talk) 10:49, 2 March 2021 (UTC)