Sheets and Pattern for a Dissection with Letter of Donald Coxeter
date: label: date made
content: 1938-1940
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: These materials Include a letter of Donald Coxeter dated Oct. 2, 1938, as well as a dissection.. The six-pieced dissection transforms a regular pentagon and an equilateral triangle. The original envelope also is enclosed. The folder also includes an undated description of a dissection of the regular pentagon into six pieces which can be rearranged to form an equilateral triangle, on the same sized paper as the letter. There also is a page of calculations, dated April 26, 1940, that is accompanied by two cardboard pattern pieces.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Canada: Ontarian, Toronto
label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louise D. Campbell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.3002.052
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.052
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets and Pattern
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 25 cm x 37.5 cm x .5 cm; 9 27/32 in x 14 3/4 in x 3/16 in