Just to put things into perspective, the $2,000,000 from google is a small fraction of
the funding that MoMath was able to raise. They have now raised
$24,000,000 (from an initial goal of $20,000,000).
Edmund
On 13 Apr 2011, at 08:54, Chris Budd wrote:
> I too agree .. we must think BIG!!
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> Quoting John Sharp <[log in to unmask]>:
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>> I agree totally with you, Chris
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>> I should have made myself clearer.
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>> There is a difference between being expensive and being good value. It's like there is a difference between precision and accuracy.
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>> My point was that it is going to cost a great deal of money if you want to do it well.
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>> John S
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>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Chris Budd <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Dear all
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>> Whilst I take John's point about the need for substantial
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>> funding for a maths museum, and fully agree with Richard that the
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>> Mathematikum is a good model for such, I would like to query
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>> his view that the exhibition we ran was rather expensive for something
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>> quite small.
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>> For an investment of £15k we ran an exhibition at the Royal
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>> Society to which 50,000 people came, and followed this up with
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>> exhibitions at the Big Bang for 30,000, the Manchester Science
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>> Festival for 10,000 and Bath Taps for 2,000. The exhibition will
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>> be having further appearences at the Big Bang next year, Bath Taps and
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>> at the Manchester Festival, so I estimate that the £15k
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>> led to a maths exhibition seen by over 100 000 people (that
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>> works out at 15p per person). I hope that this shows what can be
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>> done with a bit of energy. I would really like to push all
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>> maths promoters to run such exhibitions. Science festivals have far
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>> too few maths exhibits in them (with of course some excellent
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>> and glorious exceptions) and maths is much cheaper to
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>> exhibit than some of the other areas of STEM.
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>> Best wishes
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>> Chris
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>> Quoting Richard Browne <[log in to unmask]>:
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>> Dear All
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>> I think a permanent mathematical museum in the UK is an excellent idea.
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>> We should also make sure we learn from experience in Germany, where a similar museum exists in Giessen http://www.mathematikum.de/ (the website has an English version)
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>> Richard Browne
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Edmund Harriss
Department of Mathematics
University of Arkansas
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they
translate into their own language and forthwith it is something
entirely different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1842
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