If the young folks in your household love iPad but not maths or engineering, here is one tool for you.
At the cusp of NASA's first moon mission, the 1964 World's Fair in New York City inspired thousands of young people to study math and science and pursue careers in engineering. IBM's exhibit at the Fair -- Mathematica: A World of Numbers...and Beyond -- encouraged future generations to appreciate math and create the next generation of computing. Now here is an iPad App to recreate the Exhibit and inspire young people today to appreciate maths in the digital age of Big Data, coupled with President Obama's calling for R&D for Big Data.
At the cusp of NASA's first moon mission, the 1964 World's Fair in New York City inspired thousands of young people to study math and science and pursue careers in engineering. IBM's exhibit at the Fair -- Mathematica: A World of Numbers...and Beyond -- encouraged future generations to appreciate math and create the next generation of computing. Now here is an iPad App to recreate the Exhibit and inspire young people today to appreciate maths in the digital age of Big Data, coupled with President Obama's calling for R&D for Big Data.
The Mathematica-A World of Numbers ... and Beyond exhibit was created by famed husband-and-wife design team Charles and Ray Eames, and the app is being released during the centennial year of Ray Eames' birth. IBM designed the app together with the Eames Office, which works to preserve the legacy of Charles and Ray Eames. The iPad app, Minds of Modern Mathematics is available for free at the App Store.
The exhibit has a massive 50-foot-long timeline poster from IBM's World Fair exhibit that traces hundreds of artifacts, milestones and giants of math from 1000 AD to 1960. The timeline poster is recreated interactively in the iPad App.
The app also includes a collection of short films, known as the "IBM Mathematics Peep Show," produced by the Eameses. It's a series of playful two-minute animated lessons on mathematical concepts, from exponents to symmetry.
IBM's original Mathematica exhibit is still on display at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, NY, and the Museum of Science, Boston. A smaller-scale poster is still on the walls of hundreds of schools and universities around the world and stands as an example of IBM's and the Eames’ vision for interactive learning and design.
For students, teachers, and tech fans of all ages, the app illustrates how mathematics has influenced advances in art, science, music and architecture. Users can click through more than 500 biographies, historical achievements and images culled from the original Mathematica exhibit as well as a high-resolution image of the timeline poster.
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