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New York: National Museum of Mathematics

When we first came to New York we all wrote down where we wanted to go while we were here. All of us included the math museum (confirms our status as a family of total geeks) so that is where we headed today.
On the way we went to the LEGO shop. There was plenty of great Lego art and some pretty cool sets that Samuel hadn't seen before.  


The best part was the machine that used a palm print to generate your Lego avatar.

Eric: Check out the six pack. Not sure where they got the toupee from though.

Samuel is Johnny Depp?


Amazingly accurate this one.

The famous Flatiron building


And the math museum? Of course we enjoyed it! It was all interactive with loads of old and new problems to solve. We even got to use maths in an artistic way. 
Tessellating

Samuel and Eric were most entranced by a floor exhibit which changed periodically but had a range of practical problems.


The museum was well populated in the morning with groups of school kids, but during the afternoon we could get to the exhibits we wanted. 

The museum sells these chairs (which are 3D printed). We so want one!


The statisticians never wanted to leave


This bike would have been useful on some of the roads in South America


Physics was never so exciting

What a wonderful educational day we all had.




Comments

  1. UnknownMay 24, 2019 at 4:26 PM

    We've seen (and tried) those chairs in Sydney, so they are available in Australia! Looks like you had so much fun.

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  2. EESMay 25, 2019 at 1:37 AM

    Thanks for the tip. We'll have to look out for them though they were pretty pricey!

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