Squealing schoolchildren ride a square-wheeled tricycle and a “Coaster Roller” that glides over plastic acorns. Downstairs, they fit monkey magnets together at the “Tessellation Station.” This is how ...

NEW YORK — The floors, the staircases, and even the bathrooms are imbued with math at the new National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), set to open here Saturday (Dec. 15). The country's first museum ...

There are those who identify as math people and those who do not. But Glen Whitney, a math person, believes that the distinction is a fallacy. He studied math at Harvard, went on to U.C.L.A. for a ...

As the World Cup final approaches, take a moment to appreciate the beautiful symmetries of humanity’s favorite truncated icosahedron. By Siobhan Roberts They can shake off those winter doldrums by ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...

Manhattan is getting a new museum. The Museum of Mathematics, a new nonprofit cultural institution created by former hedge fund executive Glen Whitney, just signed a lease for 19,000 square feet near ...

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(CBS News) Take an unpopular academic subject, a dedicated visionary, and $23 million, and what have you got? Why, it all adds up to the museum our Mo Rocca's about to guide us through: Math. The very ...

The sculpture is made from straight strings. But step inside it, and you’re surrounded by curves. A paradox? You’ve just had an encounter with exotic geometry in the form of a hyperhyperboloid.

Opened in 2012, the Museum of Mathematics is the only museum in the country dedicated to math. From the moment museum visitors pull on the door handles in the shape of the symbol for pi, they enter a ...