{"id":10776,"date":"2009-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"new-yorker-glen-whitney-quits-hedge-fund-job-to-create-math-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2009\/new-yorker-glen-whitney-quits-hedge-fund-job-to-create-math-museum.html","title":{"rendered":"New Yorker Glen Whitney quits hedge fund job to create math museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; An enthusiastic&nbsp;math whiz plus hands-on exhibits multiplied by deep-pocketed investors equals a math museum.<\/p>\n<p>This formula may one day lead to every school kid&#8217;s nightmare &#8211; a museum dedicated to nothing but mathematics &#8211; thanks to a Long Island man who quit his hedge fund job to dedicate himself to the project. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Math is an ongoing, living and developing thing that is beautiful and can be a lot of fun,&quot; said Glen Whitney, 40, of Stony Brook. <\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/06\/09\/2009-06-09_new_yorker_glen_whitney_quits_hedge_fund_job_to_create_math_museum.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; An enthusiastic&nbsp;math whiz plus hands-on exhibits multiplied by deep-pocketed investors equals a math museum. This formula may one day lead to every school kid&#8217;s nightmare &#8211; a museum dedicated to nothing but mathematics &#8211; thanks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12800,12795,11148,4504,12796,5830,12794,12793,12801,11104,4549,12799,12797,12798,4553],"class_list":["post-10776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-exhibits","tag-fund-job","tag-hedge-fund","tag-investors","tag-island-man","tag-long-island","tag-math-museum","tag-math-whiz","tag-mathematics","tag-nbsp","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-nightmare","tag-school-kid","tag-stony-brook","tag-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}