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About this exhibit
Once you drop into the Mathematica matrix, you will sense math all around you. Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation has activated the kinetic and rigorously playful exhibition, created by groundbreaking designers Charles and Ray Eames. Mathematica itself is an artifact that is preserved, restored and installed as closely as possible to its original wonder-inspiring 1961 design. Novices and prodigies will make new connections, from the conceptual to the aesthetic.
Bubbles that seem impossible, ball bearings that mimic orbiting planets and a machine that renders probability theory as visible awaken the relationship between math and the everyday world. Count on full-STEAM-ahead learning, with the Eameses’ legendary elegance and levity.
Bubbles that seem impossible, ball bearings that mimic orbiting planets and a machine that renders probability theory as visible awaken the relationship between math and the everyday world. Count on full-STEAM-ahead learning, with the Eameses’ legendary elegance and levity.
Highlights
Mathematical Models
The Random Walk
Conic Sections
Minimal Surfaces
Probability Board
Celestial Mechanics
Projective Geometry
Multiplication Cube
Mathematica
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