Geometric Model of Rhombic Hexecontahedron Distributed by Wolfram
date: label: date made
content: 2014
label: date made
content: ca 2014
notes: label: Description
content: This red paper model represents the logo of Wolfram/Alpha. It has sixty identical rhombic faces, sixty-two vertices, and one hundred twenty edges. Its twenty outer points form the vertices of a regular dodecahedron, its twelve inner points form the vertices of an icosahedron. According to the paper container, the model was "explicitly constructed" only in 1940.
label: Description
content: A mark on the front of the container reads: WOLFRAM/ALPHA (/) PAPER SCULPTURE KIT.
label: Description
content: Collected at the January, 2014, Joint Mathematics Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America.
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: Science & Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collected-for-the-Museum
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2014.3126.06
label: nonaccession number
content: 2014.3126
label: catalog number
content: 2014.3126.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: in container, unfolded: .8 cm x 15.3 cm x 15.3 cm; 5/16 in x 6 1/32 in x 6 1/32 in