Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Seventh Stellation of the Icosahedron
date: label: Date made
content: 1919 04 26
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: Some people straddle the boundary between professional and amateur mathematicians. The geometric model maker A. Harry Wheeler of Worcester, Massachusetts, was one of these borderline figures. Wheeler was a high school mathematics teacher who made geometric models for forty years and taught his students to do likewise. Some of the surfaces he made, including this one, had never been built before. Contemporary research mathematicians admired his ingenuity, but considered him an amateur. Hundreds of people who saw his models and listened to him talk about them described him as a mathematician.
label: Description
content: This tan paper cut and folded surface has twenty points. A mark on it reads: April-26-1919 (/) X (/) 370 (/) I9. It is model De1 in Coxeter''s notation.
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content: References:
label: Description
content: David L. Roberts, "Albert Harry Wheeler (1873-1950): A Case Study in the Stratification of American Mathematical Activity," <I>Historia Mathematica 23 (1996), 269-287.
label: Description
content: H.S.M. Coxeter, P. Du Val, H. T. Flather, and J. F. Petrie, <I>The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra</I>, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Plate VIII.
label: Description
content: Magnus J. Wenninger, <I>Polyhedron Models</I>, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 53.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
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: Gift of Helen M. Wheeler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.304723.210
label: accession number
content: 304723
label: catalog number
content: 304723.210
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Geometric Model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: cut and folded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 15 cm x 18 cm x 18 cm; 5 29/32 in x 7 3/32 in x 7 3/32 in