Timeline for What would you want to see at the Museum of Mathematics?
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| Feb 4, 2011 at 20:40 | comment | added | Dan Lee | They have one of these at the nearby Queens Hall of Science. I wonder if MoMath can just purchase the Hall of Science's math exhibits. They're nice but completed ignored by most visitors. | |
| Dec 31, 2010 at 14:01 | comment | added | Andrea Mori | They have (had?) a Galton box in the math section of the Museum of Science in Boston with an added feature which I found intriguing (and clever): while most of the balls in the box are white, only a handful were black. After operating the machine the balls would overall arrange themeselves in a bell curve, BUT the few black balls would be scattered here and there in a unstructured random way. This shows that the expected distribution is reached only after a large amount of trials (=balls) while the theory is ineffective for a small amount. Unfortunately no panel on the exhibit explained this! | |
| Dec 27, 2010 at 20:16 | history | edited | Denis Serre | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 26, 2010 at 11:39 | history | edited | Sam Nead | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Dec 26, 2010 at 11:36 | comment | added | Sam Nead | Thanks for letting me know! I'll add a link to the answer. | |
| Dec 25, 2010 at 22:54 | comment | added | Zsbán Ambrus | For searchability, this device is called a Galton box. | |
| Dec 25, 2010 at 19:28 | history | answered | Sam Nead | CC BY-SA 2.5 |