The exhibition “I Love Mathematics”

Until March 15, 2015, the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery will feature an interesting exhibition, “I Love Mathematics”, where visitors will have the opportunity to learn all things interesting about numbers, formulas and laws of mathematics in an interactive way.

Until March 15, 2015, the Klovićevi Dvori Gallery will feature the interactive exhibition “I Love Mathematics”. This intriguing exhibition is the brainchild of a retired mathematics teacher, Georg Schierscher, and comes to Zagreb from the National Museum of Liechtenstein in Vaduz. In order to help his students gain a better understanding of math, which is a bugaboo for most people, the experienced pedagogue simply transformed mathematical forms into everyday items, thus enabling his students to understand certain concepts in mathematics through tangible reality. In class he utilized numerous aids, ranging from various physical models, to objects from nature and everyday household items, to computer-generated graphics and animations he devised himself, as well as other items, all in order to explain the basic mathematical concepts and theorems to his students. In such a way he showed them that math is all around us. For example, a football is an irregular icosahedron and car headlights are parabolic reflectors...

The exhibition will feature a hundred models divided into seven themes: Growth and Development, Geometry around the Golden Ratio, Geometric Shapes, Archimedes (ideas about the circle and ball), the Path of the Engineers (math in technology, on the roads and in construction), Mirrors (reflection and symmetry), and Fractal and Dynamic (math inspired by clouds, vegetables and stock exchange quotation). Thus, visitors will have the opportunity to learn interesting facts about numbers, formulas and the laws of mathematics in an interactive way, through everyday items and phenomena. Professor Schierscher hopes that the exhibition will also be enjoyed by students in Croatia, who are not huge fans of math, and he also hopes it will attract everyone with an interest in math.

The exhibition is organized in cooperation with the Večernji List daily and the Radost magazine, and it will feature workshops conducted by math teachers, as well as other concurrent events organized by the Croatian Mathematical Society.