The Spider-Trickster Does Mathematics

Anansi, a forty-foot-tall sculpture, was created by Henry Rollins for the 1974 exhibition Public Sculpture/Urban Environment. The sculpture consists of a solid red frustrum of a cone with iron rods balanced to form a design of five squares connected at their vertices with balls. These squares are co...

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Published in:The Mathematics teacher 2011-03, Vol.104 (7), p.494
Main Author: Wilcock, Doug
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Mathematical problems
Sculpture
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Summary:Anansi, a forty-foot-tall sculpture, was created by Henry Rollins for the 1974 exhibition Public Sculpture/Urban Environment. The sculpture consists of a solid red frustrum of a cone with iron rods balanced to form a design of five squares connected at their vertices with balls. These squares are contained within a larger 3 x 3 square. The 3 x 3 square is not complete because four rods are missing. These missing rods give the structure an open quality. Here, Wilcock presents a mathematical problem regarding the sculpture.
ISSN:0025-5769
2330-0582