Object Details
- Baker, Richard P.
- Description
- This painted plaster model is one of several hundred designed and made by Richard P. Baker, who taught mathematics at the University of Iowa in the early twentieth century. A typed paper label attached to one side reads: No. 430* (/) Spherical repr's (/) xyz + x - y = 0. The surface has two clear local minimums and two local maximums.
- The model apparently is not listed in Baker's 1931 catalog, but models with similar numbers are grouped in the category "analytic geometry."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frances E. Baker
- ca 1906-1935
- ID Number
- MA.211257.081
- accession number
- 211257
- catalog number
- 211257.081
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- plaster (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- plaster cast. (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 10.7 cm x 15.8 cm x 13.2 cm; 4 7/32 in x 6 7/32 in x 5 3/16 in
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_1087010
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-2dd8-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
