NEW YORK — The latest exhibit at the National Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan was supposed to have been put on display last fall, except it was not quite working. It’s called “Beaver Run,” but the ...

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 ...

Sixth Grader Kai Collins walked through a “Logic Maze.” Hattie Hopkins smoothly used a “Funny Face” camera that distorts everyone it shoots. And another young student used a laser at the “Ring of Fire ...

Few equations confront a visitor to the National Museum of Mathematics on Manhattan’s East 26th Street. Instead, museumgoers find children — and adults — riding the Coaster Roller (below), a small ...

The entrance to the Museum of Mathematics (click to enlarge) (all images courtesy the Museum of Mathematics unless otherwise noted) The new Museum of Mathematics, or MoMath, provides an interactive ...

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 ...

Manjul Bhargava, 2014 Fields Medal winner and professor of mathematics at Princeton University, was named the first Distinguished Chair for the Public Dissemination of Mathematics at the National ...

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 ...