Model Relating to a Spherical Representation, by Richard P. Baker, Baker #430*
date: label: date made
content: ca 1906-1935
name: label: maker
content: Baker, Richard P.
notes: label: Description
content: This painted plaster model is one of several hundred designed and made by Richard P. Baker, who taught mathematics at the University of Iowa in the early twentieth century. A typed paper label attached to one side reads: No. 430* (/) Spherical repr's (/) xyz + x - y = 0. The surface has two clear local minimums and two local maximums.
label: Description
content: The model apparently is not listed in Baker's 1931 catalog, but models with similar numbers are grouped in the category "analytic geometry."
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: Gift of Frances E. Baker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MA.211257.081
label: accession number
content: 211257
label: catalog number
content: 211257.081
objectType: label: Object Name
content: geometric model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plaster (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: plaster cast. (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 10.7 cm x 15.8 cm x 13.2 cm; 4 7/32 in x 6 7/32 in x 5 3/16 in