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What If a Museum of History Added a Mathematical Exhibit to the Experience Equation? Gain perspective. Get inspired. Make history. THE HENRY FORD MAGAZINE - MARCH-MAY 2017 | FLATLAND | MATH IN POP CULTURE | LIVE-CODING MUSIC | INSIDE THE HENRY FORD THE HENRY MUSIC | INSIDE | LIVE-CODING IN POP CULTURE | MATH | FLATLAND 2017 - MARCH-MAY MAGAZINE FORD THE HENRY MAGAZINE MARCH-MAY 2017 THE MATH ISSUE PAGE 48 What if a museum of history added a mathematical exhibit to the experience equation? WRITING CODE THAT CREATES MUSIC HOW MATH SLIPS INTO THE MAINSTREAM MODERN-DAY MAKEOVER OF A MATH BOOK SOMETIMES, OUR HIGHEST HEIGHTS HAPPEN LONG BEFORE TAKEOFF. Official Airline of The Henry Ford. There's a difference between being in a community and being part of it. Citizens Bank is pleased to support The Henry Ford and its mission to inspire people to learn from America's traditions of ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation to help shape a better future. Member FDIC. Citizens Bank is a brand name of Citizens Bank, N.A. and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. 729656 LEARN TO CUT A CAKE MATHEMATICALLY. SEE PAGE 22 2 MARCH-MAY 2017 MAGAZINE MARCH-MAY 2017 Contents DEPARTMENTS FEATURES Our Mission 4 Behind the Scenes 5 18 Letter from the President 6 MATH GONE VIRAL A Number or Two 8 Why numbers, shapes, Ask + Answer 9 equations, graphs, Off the Shelf 10 probabilities and Social Snippets 12 Pythagorean problems A Look Back 80 are having a pop culture moment INNOVATION 28 MATH, MUSIC + NATION 13 THE MATRIX Live coders are in tune with the mathematical INSIDE makeup of song THE 38 HENRY MATH BOOK FORD REIMAGINED Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation 48 Iconic text loved by Greenfield Village 50 mathematicians for Ford Rouge Factory Tour 52 more than a century Acquisitions + Collections 54 gets a designer reboot 2017 Events 56 Connect 3 60 STAY, EXPLORE + SAVOR 61 ON THE COVER With an eye to the peephole of the Conic Sections interactive, a world of surfaces and curves formed by tightly stretched strings comes into startling view. Charles and Ray Eames’ groundbreaking Mathematica exhibition opens in Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation this fall. PHOTO BY BILL BOWEN thehenryford.org 3 OUR MISSION Who We Are and What We Do TO MAKE A DONATION Jeff Dunlap, 313.982.6167 Gain perspective. [email protected] thehenryford.org/support TO MAKE A LEGACY GIFT Spence Medford, Get inspired. 313.982.6016 [email protected] thehenryfordlegacy.org Chairman of the Board ADVERTISING INFORMATION Make history. S. Evan Weiner Cyndi Schutter, 313.982.6158 [email protected] Vice Chairman THE HENRY FORD: A NATIONAL TREASURE AND CULTURAL RESOURCE Gerard M. Anderson MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION The Henry Ford Call Center The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, is an internationally recognized cultural Vice Chairman Sheila Ford Hamp 313.982.6001 destination that brings the past forward by immersing visitors in the stories of GENERAL INQUIRIES AND ingenuity, resourcefulness and innovation that helped shape America. President and Secretary GROUP RESERVATIONS A National Historic Landmark with an unparalleled collection of artifacts Patricia E. Mooradian The Henry Ford Call Center from 300 years of American history, The Henry Ford is a force for sparking 313.982.6001 Treasurer curiosity and inspiring tomorrow’s innovators. More than 1.7 million visitors Lisa A. Payne RESEARCH INQUIRIES annually experience its four venues: Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation,™ 313.982.6020 Greenfield Village,® Ford Rouge Factory Tour and the Benson Ford Research Board of Trustees research.center@thehenry Lynn Ford Alandt Center.® A continually expanding array of content available online provides ford.org Paul R. Dimond anytime, anywhere access to The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation.® Edsel B. Ford II SUBSCRIPTION The Henry Ford is also home to Henry Ford Academy,® a public charter high Henry Ford III INFORMATION school that educates 485 students a year on the institution’s campus. 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Weiser 248.399.1322 The Henry Ford Magazine [email protected] is published twice a year Jennifer LaForce, Editor by The Henry Ford, 20900 Help us inspire Bill Bowen, Creative Director Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, Julie Friedman, Art Director future change makers MI 48124. Copyright 2017. All rights reserved. Kathy O’Gorman, Copy Editor The Henry Ford inspires dreamers, doers, movers and makers Reproduction in whole or in part without written with stories of the greatest breakthroughs and inventions permission is prohibited. throughout history. Your support goes a long way toward unleashing The Henry Ford Archive of American Innovation and making our collections available to the world. The Henry Ford is an independent nonprofit organization. We depend on ticket purchases, income from our stores and restaurants, and tax-deductible contributions and memberships for support. To learn how your generosity can help take it forward, visit thehenryford.org/support. 4 MARCH-MAY 2017 thehenryford.org PB Notable Colleagues and Correspondents BEHIND THE SCENES WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER? Our contributors tell us. JING WEI ALLEN SALKIN ENISAURUS JASON KEHE SARAH JONES 8. It’s the luckiest 6. Birth year is ’66. Ø. When someone asks 12. The great Quincy 17. When I was a kid, number in Chinese Birthday is April 2: 4+2 me what my favorite Jones once told me, I thought liking the culture. I’m a bit super- = 6. Mother’s birthday is number is, I always “You know, there are number 17 made me stitious, so I’m always 4/2/42 (yes, same day, think the same thing: only 12 notes!” That different. Turns out looking for 8’s in my different year) — again, why was my attention perfectly encapsulates it’s pretty significant, life (dates, hotel rooms, 4+2 and 4+2 is how I never caught for any the foundation — and mathematically and passcodes, etc.). Aside see it. I always bet on particular number? limitless potential — culturally. And that’s from that, it’s just a very sixes. Mark of the beast? Maybe it’s because I of Western music. now how I view myself. pleasing and satisfying Whatever. was always totally awful Jason Kehe is an number to look at! with math at school, a Musician and journalist Allen Salkin is a world- associate editor at complete disaster, and Sarah Jones has Jing Wei is a Chinese- renowned trend writer, Wired, where he covers that bad relationship chronicled the creative born, California-raised author, filmmaker and books, art and robots. built a barrier between and technical forces illustrator who enjoys journalist. He reads science us. But if I had to choose shaping the music doing a lot of things fiction and fantasy Math Gone Viral, Page 18 one, it would be 8, the industry for the past 20 at the same time. She almost exclusively. infinity number. years. She’s the editor regularly freelances of Electronic Musician, a Math Book Reimagined, for clients such as Enisaurus (Santiago magazine for musicians. Page 38 Target, Herman Miller, Usano) is a full-time MailChimp, Adobe and freelance commercial Math, Music + The Matrix, The New York Times. illustrator with a back- Page 28 When she’s not in the ground in graphic design studio, she works as the living and working in illustration director for London. His work is a Etsy, where she helps mashup of geometry, develop the brand voice textures, bold strokes and vision. And when and intense colors. He she’s not doing either develops commercial, of those things, she’s advertising and editorial teaching publications illustration projects for at Pratt Institute. In her clients such as Seattle spare time, she is a fan of Met magazine, TEDx swimming, traveling and and BMW. having people pronounce Math Gone Viral, Page 18 her name correctly. Ask + Answer, Page 9 STAY CONNECTED WITH THE HENRY FORD. visit thehenryford.org PB JANUARY-MAY 2016 thehenryford.org 5 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Casual Thoughts and Serious Correspondence You may have heard that we changed the name of Henry Ford Museum to Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. While the name of the overall destination remains it for its new permanent spot in the museum. The Henry Ford, extending Henry Ford Museum’s When finished this fall, the exhibition will activate name to include the word “innovation” better serves people’s imaginations and engage them in the our visitors not only in this community but across potential playfulness of math. the country and around the globe, as it effectively With Mathematica taking up residence at conveys the core idea that threads through the The Henry Ford, it seemed like an obvious choice museum’s key collections — innovation. The museum to dedicate this issue of The Henry Ford Magazine has always been about ideas and innovations that to stories with mathematical undertones. Read changed the world. Its name now directly reflects about one man’s passionate journey to reprint, its focus.
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