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Mathematics Museum To Open In Manhattan
eldavojohn writes "If math gives you a raging brainer prepare yourself for MoMath opening next year to 'expose the breadth and the beauty of mathematics' in New York City. After raising $22 million from donors, Glen Whitney wants to challenge the average American's perception of mathematics. Whitney has proven himself with Math Midway a sort of traveling carnival exhibit, and prior to that worked on algorithms at Renaissance Technologies."
It's nice to see places that help popularize subject matter most would consider mundane.
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Visitors must pay $3.14 to enter.
I sure hope that they do provide some interesting insights when it comes to how Fermat's theorem was solved and a lot of stuff that can range from weird to simple but interesting.
And there are a lot of math out there that's still waiting to get solved. Some of it may even have an impact on our daily life.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Hope they call it 3M instead of MMM (Manhattan Mathematics Museum).
better headline
For everyone who finds mathematics incomprehensible, boring, pointless, or all of the above, Glen Whitney wants to prove you wrong.
That's how math is taught: rote memorization, drudgery, and most of the time, with no applications to the real World - it's just "solve this problem for 'x'"
Mr. Whitney, a former math professor who parlayed his quantitative skills into a job at a Long Island hedge fund. He quit in late 2008 with connections to deep pockets and a quest to make math fun and cool.
There ya go! How about showing people, especially kids, that you can get rich with math - there are other avenues besides entertainment like insipid reality shows.
but Mr. Whitney’s museum, nicknamed MoMath, will be devoid of dinosaurs and planetarium shows and will instead focus on the abstract.
Ugh! No, no , no! Add in applications! Show how money grows. Show exponential growth. Show probability. Show how we're manipulated by statistics by people with an agenda.
God! Abstract? People are just going to go "Oooooooo! Aaaaahhhhhhh!' and leave with nothing learned.
One big sausage fest. As a New Yorker, I'm very much looking forward to it. Arts in the traditional sense just isn't doing it for me.
They'll do something they think is clever like announcing their opening date as "If a train is heading to Manhattan from Los Angeles to open a museum on mathematics at 50 mph, and leaves on the first friday in July 2011, and another train is heading to Manhattan for the same reason at 150 mph but departs on the following monday, which train arrives on opening day first.. and what date is it?" hurr durrr.
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I hope they show some np 'unsolvable' problems. they translate nicely into easy to understand story problems and show that we still have alot to learn even about math.
Most males today are dropping out of HS at an alarming rate and really only have a future has criminals since they have no skills outside of ebonics? They have no attention span that is no longer than the 120 characters of a text message. They do not read and are basically STUPID.
We have some of the dumbest people in the world as well. Outside of giving every person a cell phone, most of the people might as well live in the stone age.
If the museum is like most science museums that I have visited, they basically cater to 12 year olds. Today most 12 year olds are most likely getting laid and doing drugs do you really expect them to be interested in maths?
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I must be getting old. I haven't had a raging brainer in years, unless you count that 'morning logarithm' a couple of weeks back...
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Mathematica, from 1961. It's at the New York Hall of Science now.
I had the pleasure of meeting George Hart at a recent Maker Faire. George is one of the people working on getting this museum up and running. Go Google some of his art / math. It's fantastic, beautiful and fun. Also Google his daughter Vi Hart. She has a great blog and some fun YouTube videos. She's the one wearing forearm warmers at any math related gathering (don't ask).
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I hope 123 4th Street is available.
very cool idea
They're missing a number. Proof is left as an exercise for the visitor.
Those bast8rds kicked me out for dividing by zero!
Table-ized A.I.
Glen Whitney wants to challenge the average American's perception of mathematics.
Yeah, like, good luck with that
but www.3m.museum is free