In such a museum, I would like to see how mathematics are used in real life, not just for their internal beauty (well, beauty, simplicity and usability are certainly related). I mentioned above in a comment how Thales' theorem has been the tool to measure the height of pyramids. This can make a nice mathematics experiment: a lamp (the sun) a small pyramid and a stick. And suddenly math comes alive. Another kind of living mathematics: put salt into a thin aquarium such that the density vary, top to bottom, from zero to (almost) infinity. Put Send a light beam almost tangential to one face of the aquarium and the light will follow a geodesic of Poincaré's half plane (this experiment has been actually presented at the Paris "Palais de la découverte"). These are just two examples of "math in real life", I'm confident in mathematician's skills to find a lot more of such examples (not just in geometry: prime number and securing communications, statistics and controlling epidemics, etc...). I'm sure that understanding with our eyes how mathematics are used in real life makes mathematics even more sexy.
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In such a museum, I would like to see how mathematics are used in real life, not just for their internal beauty (well, beauty, simplicity and usability are certainly related). I mentioned above in a comment how Thales' theorem has been the tool to measure the height of pyramids. This can make a nice mathematics experiment: a lamp (the sun) a small pyramid and a stick. And suddenly math comes alive. Another kind of living mathematics: put salt into a thin aquarium such that the density vary, top to bottom, from zero to (almost) infinity. Put a light beam almost tangential to one face of the aquarium and the light will follow a geodesic of Poincaré's half plane (this experiment has been actually presented at the Paris "Palais de la découverte"). There These are just two examples of "math in real life", I'm confident in mathematician's skills to find a lot more of such examples (not just in geometry: prime number and securing communications, statistics and controlling epidemics, etc...). I'm sure that understanding with our eyes how mathematics are used in real life makes mathematics even more sexy. |
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In such a museum, I would like to see how mathematics are used in real life, not just for their internal beauty (well, beauty, simplicity and usability are certainly related). I mentioned above in a comment how Thales' theorem has been the tool to measure the height of pyramids. This can make a nice mathematics experiment: a lamp (the sun) a small pyramid and a stick. And suddenly math comes alive. Another kind of living mathematics: put salt into a thin aquarium such that the density vary, top to bottom, from zero to (almost) infinity. Put a light beam almost tangential to one face of the aquarium and the light will follow a geodesic of Poincaré's half plane (this experiment has been actually presented at the Paris "Palais de la découverte"). There are just two examples of "math in real life", I'm confident in mathematician's skills to find a lot more of such examples (not just in geometry: prime number and securing communications, statistics and controlling epidemics, etc...). I'm sure that understanding with our eyes how mathematics are used in real life makes mathematics even more sexy. |
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