After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in ...

The Wheel of Fire. Square-wheeeled trikes. The Twist 'n' Roll. Hyper hyperboloids. No, it's not a traveling circus, it's MoMath, the nation's only museum of mathematics, which opens Saturday in New ...

Math is key to everything, from music and art to the sequencing of traffic lights and the scheduling of package deliveries. Just figuring out the order in which you’ll run a bunch of errands involves ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It's crazy but true (insert comment about terrible U.S. math scores here). Glen Whitney and Cindy Lawrence are doing something about it. "Math is not considered cool in the United States," Lawrence ...

The quants have been performing especially well in this year's choppy markets. How do they do it? You won't hear any of the brainiacs at firms such as Renaissance Technologies and Two Sigma ...