Book, Mathematics in the Making
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: maker
content: Hogben, Lancelot Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: Lancelot Hogben (1895-1975) was a British zoologist and statistician who took up the popularization of mathematics relatively late in his career. This lavishly illustrated popular history of mathematics discusses topics in the history of the discipline from antiquity to the early twentieth century.
label: Description
content: This copy of the book is from the personal library of William F. Eberth (1905-1976), who spent fifteen years of his career with the Atomic Energy Commission working in South Africa. A tag inside the front cover reads: vanguardbooksellers(pty)ltd (/) 25 Joubert Street JOHANNESBURG.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of W. F. Eberth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.319872.07
label: accession number
content: 1975319872
label: catalog number
content: 319872.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3.1 cm x 21.5 cm x 28 cm; 1 7/32 in x 8 15/32 in x 11 1/32 in