Notes Relating to a textbook on Trigonometry by Conant, Compiled by A. Harry Wheeler
date: label: date made
content: 1913-1950
name: label: maker
content: Wheeler, Albert Harry
notes: label: Description
content: People have long learned - and taught - mathematics by working problems. These sheets, written between 1913 and 1950, contain problems in trigonometry worked by Worcester, Massachusetts, mathematics teacher A. Harry Wheeler and his students. Most of them come from Leivi L. Conant’s textbook on plane trigonometry, first published in 1909. The volume apparently remained in print and in use in the Worcester public schools until the time of Wheeler's retirement in about 1943 - the pages of given problems remain fixed.
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content: There also are a few worked problems in spherical trigonometry. Wheeler taught the subject at the U.S. Army's Specialized Training Program at Clark University in the summer of 1943, and these materials seem to date from that period. The problems solved were from a textbook by James R. Bland, Lyman L. Kells, and Willis Frederick Kern, quite possibly their <I>Plane and Spherical Trigonometry</I>, published by McGraw-Hill in 1940.
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content: Reference:
label: Description
content: Correspondence of A. Harry Wheeler, Wheeler Collection, Mathematics, NMAH (see 1979.3002.110).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: associated place
content: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
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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: 1979.3002.112
label: catalog number
content: 1979.3002.112
label: nonaccession number
content: 1979.3002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheets, Group of
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: tan (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 29 cm x 33 cm x 11 cm; 11 13/32 in x 13 in x 4 11/32 in