20 Fascinating Things We Saw At Manhattan’s New Museum Of Mathematics

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The National Museum of Mathematics opened up December 15th in Midtown, and we had to check it out. 

It’s two stories packed with hi-tech computers and mathematical experiments that make this museum perfect for anyone from elementary school to a Ph. D program.

It’s really rare that you see a museum that gets it right for every age, but I learned a ton of new things at MoMath.

Math professors and Rubik’s Cube solver clubs hang out there. MoMath has everything from World War Two cryptography equipment to Android-powered exhibits every couple of feet.

MoMath just opened up on 26th street between Broadway and Fifth Avenue

While a lot of the presentation is aimed at school-age kids, a lot of the material is pulled directly out of Grad school level mathematics.

1. The centerpiece of the upstairs floor, for example, is the square-wheeled tricycle that actually works

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