Book, Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry
date: label: date made
content: 1956
name: label: maker
content: Klein, Felix
notes: label: Description
content: This image is from "Famous Problems of Elementary Geometry," a book written by Felix Klein and translated by W.W. Beman and D.E. Smith. It is the Dover edition of 1956. The book came from the library of the artist Crockett Johnson. A figure on p. 41 served as the basis of his painting Seventeen Sides (Gauss). The painting has catalog number 1979.1093.45 and image 2008-2538.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Ruth Krauss in Memory of Crockett Johnson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3083.06.42
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3083.06.42
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3083
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)