(CBS News) Take an unpopular academic subject, a dedicated visionary, and $23 million, and what have you got? Why, it all adds up to the museum our Mo Rocca's about to guide us through: Math. The very ...

Eureka! a U.S. museum devoted to mysteries of math An "Enigma Cafe" offering "food for the mind, not the body" NEW YORK — At last count there were more than 17,000 museums across the country — not ...

NEW YORK — The floors, the staircases, and even the bathrooms are imbued with math at the new National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath), set to open here Saturday (Dec. 15). The country's first museum ...

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 ...

Meet “Mathemalchemy,” a traveling math-meets-art installation coming eventually to a dimension near you. By Siobhan Roberts The National Museum of Mathematics in New York is expected to open a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people who think math is boring would be intrigued by a square-wheeled tricycle. At least that's what Glen Whitney thinks. Whitney, a former math professor and hedge fund number cruncher, is ...

There are those who identify as math people and those who do not. But Glen Whitney, a math person, believes that the distinction is a fallacy. He studied math at Harvard, went on to U.C.L.A. for a ...