(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the National Museum of Mathematics sought new space in Manhattan, the right things add up for a corner spot in Chelsea: space and visibility.

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 ...

Manhattan is getting a new museum. The Museum of Mathematics, a new nonprofit cultural institution created by former hedge fund executive Glen Whitney, just signed a lease for 19,000 square feet near ...

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 ...

The sculpture is made from straight strings. But step inside it, and you’re surrounded by curves. A paradox? You’ve just had an encounter with exotic geometry in the form of a hyperhyperboloid.

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 ...