Object Details
- Baker, Richard P.
- Description
- This model has a wooden cubical frame with strings connecting supports. A blue yarn runs through string. It represents a twisted cubic, a curve which cannot be contained in a plane. The tangent lines to the twisted cubic are represented by yellow thread. Euler proved that the surface generated by these tangents can be flattened into a plane. A mark on the object reads: Scroll of higher order.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frances E. Baker
- ID Number
- MA.211257.122
- accession number
- 211257
- catalog number
- 211257.122
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- thread (overall material)
- wood (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- yellow (overall color)
- blue (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- screwed and threaded. (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 37.9 cm x 34.9 cm x 35.1 cm; 14 29/32 in x 13 3/4 in x 13 13/16 in
- place made
- United States: Iowa, Iowa City
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1088300
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-39d3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
