Via Arts & Letters Daily and NY Times:
MoMath is not what you might expect. At first you might not even guess its subject. There are a few giveaways, particularly if you recognize the symbol for pi on the door or discover the pentagonal sinks in the bathrooms.
Points:
- “This is not a museum, you might think, it is a high-tech playground, some 19,000 square feet with 30 attractions on two floors.”
- “The goal, each principal emphasized in conversations this week, was to show that math was fun, engaging, exciting. MoMath is a proselytizing museum. “
- “The reason that there haven’t been many math museums is that the enthusiasm the subject inspires is not easily communicated and not readily discovered.”