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LicenseInterlaced red, blue and yellow leather strips, 1914
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Knotted cylinder of interlacing sheet in varnished leather
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Knotted cylinder of interlacing sheet in varnished leather
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Interlaced red, blue and yellow leather strips, 1914, by Alexander Crum Brown, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1912-1914
Crum-Brown used three sheets of ‘differently shaded’ leather, each perforated by equal circular holes to demonstrate ‘locking’. If any one sheet is removed the other two fall apart. He likened this to the knot of the Borromean threefold ring.
Details
- Category:
- Mathematics
- Object Number:
- 2006-66
- Measurements:
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overall: 5 x 225 x 215 mm
- type:
- model - representation
- credit:
- School of Mathematics, The University of Edinburgh
