Checkout this short, whimsical article on one man’s quest to create a museum of math in New York, from the New Yorker magazine’s Talk of the Town section.
It seems Glen Whitney, a former hedge-fund math-whizz, had an epiphany…
…what the world needs (if not most, then at least a lot) is a museum devoted to math.
The equation goes something like this: for the variables Expertise (E), Computational Power (CP), Capital (C), Risk (R), Altruism (A), Obsession (O), Indifference (I).
And there you have it!
Read the article for some nice examples of how Whitney applies math to everyday parts of modern Manhattan.