Geometric Model, L. Brill No. 46. Ser. 7 No. 17, Third Order Surface with a Double Point (Other Real Form of the Singularity)
Object Details
- Description
- This white plaster model of a third order surface has a square base with a figure on it that undulates to a single broad peak. Two parallel horizontal lines and two curiously curved lines are indicated on the surface. Apaper tag on the base reads: 46. Another paper tag there reads: Fl. 3 Ord. mit unipl. Knotenpunkt U6 (/) Verl. v. L. Brill. 7. Ser. Nr. 17.
- This model, along with all the models of Series 7, is on the design of Carl Rodenberg of the technical high school in Munich.. It was first published by Brill in 1881.
- The object was exhibited at the German Educational Exhibit at the Columbian Exposition, a World’s Fair held in Chicago in 1893. It there was purchased by Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and subsequently was donated to the Smithsonian.
- References:
- L. Brill, Catalog mathematischer Modelle. . ., Darmstadt: L. Brill,1892, p.14, 62.
- Accession file.
- G. Fischer, Mathematical Models, Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1986, vol. 1, p. 29, vol. 2, pp. 12-14.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Wesleyan University
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1892
- ID Number
- 1985.0112.037
- catalog number
- 1985.0112.037
- accession number
- 1985.0112
- maker
- L. Brill
- Object Name
- geometric model
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- plaster (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 15 cm x 12 cm x 11.5 cm; 5 29/32 in x 4 23/32 in x 4 17/32 in
- place made
- Germany: Hesse, Darmstadt
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- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Science & Mathematics
- Subject
- Mathematics
- Record ID
- nmah_693913
