MoMath, Mo' People Interested?
I've always hated math . I'm probably the only person you'll ever know who got 380 on her math SAT (and that's with 200 points for spelling your name right!). But Glen Whitney's trying to put an end to that. According to Molly Petrilla at smartplanet.com, in 2006, when the mathematician and hedge fund algorithm manager, learned the tiny Goudreau Museum of Math in Art and Science in Hyde Park, N.Y., had closed for good, he began thinking about ways to replace it. A few years later, Whitney had raised $23 million" to build a brand-new, 20,000-square-foot museum devoted to his favorite subject," Petrilla writes. The only museum of its kind in North America, the Museum of Mathematics opened in Manhattan on Dec. 12, 2012. That's 12-12-12, you guys. Eight months later, MoMath — a nickname Whitney embraces — has attracted more visitors than he ever imagined. “There was a projection that we’d have 60,000 visitors in the first year,” he tells Petrilla