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Thanks for the info. I wish I had thought about this a few months ago
when I was in NYC; however, the science festival that was held in NYC
looks like it may be held again next year. I could see coming back for
that, so maybe I'll return and see your exhibit too. Just a top notch
exhibit.
I was at the Seattle World's Fair and returned to Seattle several times
over the years. I made a point to return to the exhibit until finally it
just disappeared. When I first walked up to the Fair building, I
remember being almost stunned by the quincunx display outside. I'll have
to go through my slides of that trip and see what I have. I recall
taking a lot of pictures. I do recall seeing the Boston exhibit about
7-8 years ago.
I think the Wikipedia entry for Mathematica mentions Atlanta, or the
Eames page. The latter looks a bit out of date. I go the impression the
Eames Foundation (?) is slowly dissolving. I tried getting a single
display from them 8 years ago, and it seemed a bit of a mystery what
they were thinking, although I had a few useful responses.
It seems to me that about 4 years ago, someone built a math exhibit
around San Jose*. The fellow behind it had made some interesting
contributions to math. California needs a math boost right now. Recently
Arnie directed to state to make algebra a required class again.
Yesterday, I saw a front page article in our small town paper that the
local schools need help at the teacher level. We have a very good HS
here, but somehow it appears math has slipped through the cracks there
at the 7-8th grade level.
* I keep all my old e-mail, and know I wrote about it to some folks.
I'll see if I can dig it up.
Eric Siegel wrote:
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> Hello, Wayne:
>
> As far as I know, the New York Hall of Science has the only complete
> copy of Mathematica: A World of Numbers. Boston had a complete copy,
> but has retired some of the exhibits as they became unworkable. We
> have repaired the guts of the math cube, the probability machine, and
> the moebius strip, everything else has been working pretty reliably.
> We also added a very nicely designed computer kiosk at the end of the
> math wall (which ends in the 60's) to update it to 2005, with the help
> of the American Mathematical History Society (might not be the right
> name.)
>
> We purchased Mathematica from CSC after they refurbished and traveled
> it, and did a permanent reinstallation based upon advice we got from
> the Eames Foundation. We have the Mathematica Peep Shows also, which
> are wonderful 2 minute films made by the Eames, but we have not made a
> kiosk to show them yet.
>
> It is a brilliant exhibition in its own right, and fits perfectly in
> the 1964 Worlds Fair building that is at the core of the Hall's
> facility. Its on a mezzanine of classics, as it is right by Seeing
> the Light, which was donated to the Hall by IBM when we re-opened in
> the 80's (and which we have also refurbished).
>
> Where is it in Atlanta?
>
> Come up and see it sometime!
>
> Eric Siegel
> Director and Chief Content Officer
> New York Hall of Science
> esiegel at nyscience dot org
> Eric Siegel
> esiegel at nyscience dot org
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