{"id":22058,"date":"2011-04-26T06:02:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T10:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22058"},"modified":"2011-04-26T06:02:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T10:02:41","slug":"museum-to-boost-math-by-adding-fun-subtracting-bore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2011\/museum-to-boost-math-by-adding-fun-subtracting-bore.html","title":{"rendered":"Museum to boost math by adding fun, subtracting bore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Times &#8211; Former hedge-fund quantitative analyst Glen\u00a0Whitney is planning to open the only museum in the United States dedicated to mathematics. MoMath, which will center on the wonders of mathematics and its connections with art, science and finance, is scheduled to open in New York City sometime next year with the help of a $2 million grant from Google.<\/p>\n<p>There are many great math teachers in the United States, but the subject\u2019s joy of discovery is lost to the \u201ctyranny of the curriculum and the almost treadmill of standardized testing,\u201d Mr. Whitney said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/apr\/24\/museum-to-boost-math-by-adding-fun-subtracting-bor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Times &#8211; Former hedge-fund quantitative analyst Glen\u00a0Whitney is planning to open the only museum in the United States dedicated to mathematics. MoMath, which will center on the wonders of mathematics and its connections with art, science and finance, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22059,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22058\/revisions\/22059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}