Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science
The Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science was a museum of math that was open from 1980–2006 in Long Island, New York. The museum was named after mathematics teacher Bernhard Goudreau, who had died in 1985, and featured many of the 3-dimensional solid models, oversized wooden math games, and puzzles built by Goudreau and his former students. After the museum closed, Glen Whitney, a former math professor, decided to open the Museum of Mathematics in Manhattan (New York
audio and there is also a "Horizon" television program.
Museums.
Several museums aim at enhancing public understanding of mathematics:
In the United States:
- Museum of Mathematics, New York, and its predecessor, the Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science,
In Austria:
- , Wien
In Germany:
- Arithmeum, Bonn
- Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, Dresden
- Mathematikum, Gießen
- , Frankfurt on Main
- , Freiberg
- , Oberwolfach