Museum of Mathematics to open in Manhattan next year!

MUSIC NUMBER A museum piece will show the interplay of math and music.

          A recent article in the New York Times, One Math Museum, Many Variables, announced that a new Museum of Mathematics, nicknamed MoMath, will be opening at 11 East 26th Street in Manhattan next year!

SHAPES A Museum of Mathematics exhibit will explain tiling patterns on different shapes.

          According to creator Glen Whitney, the museum’s mission is to shape cultural attitudes and dispel the bad rap that most people give math. “It’s the only field you can go to a cocktail party and talk to people with pride about how lousy you are,” Mr. Whitney said.  Under his vision, MoMath will be one small way to bolster mathematics education in the United States by serving as an intellectual catalyst and teaching resource.

RIDES A traveling exhibit has a tricycle with square wheels.

          “There are all sorts of myths about mathematics out there,” Mr. Whitney says — math is hard, math is boring, math is for boys, math doesn’t matter in real life. “All these are cultural myths that we want to blow apart.”