The beaming sun made the event appealing to those who were just passing by. With the street blocked off from traffic, children of all ages were afforded the ability to jog around the area without parents fearing for their safety. Longtime fans of the National Museum of Mathematics also made sure to attend. The Museum is set to reopen this summer and tickets go on sale starting June 1 earlier for members at visit.
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Math can be a force for bridging that divide. Statistics is critical in giving us the tools we need to understand and appreciate the phenomena that we observe. If lightning strikes, is it going to strike again? We need statistics to tell us the degree to which we can rely on our observations. And counting and combinatorics are tightly related to probability. Are there exhibits along those lines at the museum, allowing the audience to explore various counting methods and probability calculations?
Whitney: Indeed. I will tell you that it was an absolute must for us at the museum to include at least one or two exhibits on probability. Probability exhibits pose a special challenge. You try to understand and classify and say things about inputs, outcomes, and aggregates. But each individual visitor has his or her own experience. In the end, we planned for two exhibits that were directly focused on probability.
So we hope eventually to be able to bring the second exhibit in. You may be familiar with the Mathematica exhibition at the Boston Museum of Science. Edge FX is an exploration of the same principle. A large number of balls will come down through an array of pins. But in this case, you are equipped with a large lever which you can shift left and right that introduces a small bias—the same small bias at every pin. So now you explore if you could tilt the odds in your favor or if something was tilting the odds against you, what would happen?
And we couch this in the terms of profit and loss in a financial transaction. The foundation of decision theory is essentially to optimize your gain through the language of probability. Whitney: We are actively seeking math professionals to submit explanatory content around our exhibit. We have many folks volunteering their time to make sure the mathematical materials and descriptions running all of our exhibits are as rich as possible.
That is an exhibit that would really benefit from the use of technology to accumulate the spins that have happened all day or week long. Whitney: Absolutely. You take a regulation free throw set up—ordinary weight and size basketball.
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