Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Tetrahemihexahedron or Heptahedron (One-Sided Polyhedron)
Geometric Model by A. Harry Wheeler, Tetrahemihexahedron or Heptahedron (One-Sided Polyhedron)
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- Description
- This pink, yellow, orange, green and purple plastic model.is in the shape of a regular octahedron but has four alternating faces removed and replaced by inward-facing triangular pyramids. It is a one-sided polyhedron.
- Wenninger calls this surface a tetrahemihexahedron, Wheeler called it a heptahedron.
- Compare 1979.0102.175, 1979.0102.176, 1979.0102.177, 1979.0102.190, 1979.0102.203, 1979.0102.272, 1979.0102.304, MA.304723.366, MA.304723.380, MA.304723.387, and MA.304723.419.
- References:
- Magnus J. Wenninger, Polyhedron Models, Cambridge: The University Press, 1971, p. 101.
- A.H. Wheeler, Catalog of Models, A. H. Wheeler Papers, Mathematics Collections, National Museum of American History.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Geometric Model
- maker
- Wheeler, Albert Harry
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 5.2 cm x 3.7 cm x 3.7 cm; 2 1/16 in x 1 15/32 in x 1 15/32 in
- ID Number
- 1979.0102.176
- accession number
- 1979.0102
- catalog number
- 1979.0102.176
- Credit Line
- Gift of Louise D. Campbell
- subject
- Mathematics
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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