{"title": "Recreational Mathematics: “Tiling Problems: Introducing reptiles and chasing specters,” a minicourse hosted by Visiting Professor Dr. Tiago Hirth", "start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T19:45:00-05:00", "place": "National Museum of Mathematics", "address": "5th Avenue 225, 10010 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["games/puzzle", "science/mathematics"], "description": "“Tiling Problems: Introducing reptiles and chasing specters” is an in-person session of the Recreational Mathematics minicourse at the National Museum of Mathematics. The minicourse is hosted by Visiting Professor Dr. Tiago Hirth, a specialist in recreational mathematics and board game studies and co-founder of Circo Matemático. The course explores the playful side of mathematics through puzzles, games, patterns, and problems that have fascinated people for centuries, from cryptarithms and river-crossing problems to tessellations and rep-tiles. Along the way, participants solve ingenious problems from the past, invent new ones of their own, and encounter great figures of recreational mathematics from Fibonacci and Euler to Henry Dudeney, Martin Gardner, and John Conway.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/recreational-mathematics-tiling-problems-introducing-reptile-54112/", "official_url": "https://momath.org/recreational/nov18", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-18T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-18T19:45:00-05:00", "place": "National Museum of Mathematics", "address": "5th Avenue 225, 10010 New York", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-09T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-09T19:45:00-05:00", "place": "National Museum of Mathematics", "address": "5th Avenue 225, 10010 New York", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-16T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-16T19:45:00-05:00", "place": "National Museum of Mathematics", "address": "5th Avenue 225, 10010 New York", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Tween Primes: a discussion of The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris; hosted by Dr. Tiago Hirth", "start": "2026-11-08T16:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "National Museum of Mathematics", "address": "5th Avenue 225, 10010 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["science/mathematics", "games"], "description": "Tween Primes is the book club of the National Museum of Mathematics for readers aged 10 to 17, who meet to discuss books that combine literature with mathematics. 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Those strategies also apply to other games such as Strings-and-Coins and Nimstring.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tween-primes-a-discussion-of-the-magic-misfits-by-neil-patri-54105/", "official_url": "https://momath.org/tween-primes/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff19babf200f73c61e364ad7430962845c236398644daaa873c8640fb08d5a50-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Terence Tao: Six Math Essentials", "start": "2026-11-15T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pioneer Works", "address": "159 Pioneer St, Brooklyn, NY 11231, United States", "price": "Free RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/mathematics", "literature"], "description": "An evening conversation at Pioneer Works marking the publication of Terence Tao's first popular math book, Six Math Essentials. The Fields Medalist, often called the Mozart of mathematics, talks with Janna Levin, Pioneer Works' Founding Director of Sciences, about algebra, geometry, uncertainty, and how AI is reshaping his work. Tao signs copies of the book afterward, with books for sale on site, and the Amateur Astronomers Association offers stargazing in the garden before and after, weather permitting. Seating is first-come, first-served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/terence-tao-six-math-essentials-71721/", "official_url": "https://pioneerworks.org/programs/terence-tao-six-math-essentials", "image": "https://noky.io/images/275964c135795b593a04d4fb28d91d9b9fcd49f6a4d77d92c11cf12f85b4f405-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Family Fridays: “The Chiral Cube: A Mind-Bending Origami Puzzle”", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "National Museum of Mathematics", "address": "5th Avenue 225, 10010 New York", "price": "Free!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["science/mathematics/geometry", "diy/origami"], "description": "Family Fridays is a hands-on program at the National Museum of Mathematics bringing family members of all ages together for engaging mathematical activities. This session, \"The Chiral Cube: A Mind-Bending Origami Puzzle,\" is led by artist and educator Paula Beardell Krieg. Participants explore origami, geometry, and optical illusion, discovering chirality — shapes that come in left- and right-handed mirror-image versions. They then fold an origami cube and create surprising pieces that fit together in clever, unexpected ways.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/family-fridays-the-chiral-cube-a-mind-bending-origami-puzzle-54102/", "official_url": "https://momath.org/family-fridays", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f4ce40e17107762d2fbf6f6e42bb5656cd51349b74ffe03430123ff4deb01bc5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Unlimited: “Loops and Lines: Exploring math through beads and bracelets” featuring MOST Fellow Jasmine Camero", "start": "2026-11-07T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "National Museum of Mathematics", "address": "5th Avenue 225, 10010 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["science/mathematics"], "description": "Unlimited is MoMath's mix-n-mingle evening for middle and high school students, a parent-free night of hands-on math activities, dynamic exhibits, an interactive light-up Voronoi dance floor, and boundless cookies and hot cocoa. This session opens with a special program from the Mathematics Outreach Seminar and Training (MOST) program, which lets students explore engaging math with dynamic, early-career female mathematicians. In \"Loops and Lines: Exploring math through beads and bracelets,\" MOST Fellow Jasmine Camero leads students to discover how mathematicians find and study the points that make up curves, then apply those ideas by creating their own bead bracelet. Students must be signed in and out by an adult chaperone, with a possible exception for ages 16 and older showing valid photo ID.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/unlimited-loops-and-lines-exploring-math-through-beads-and-b-54103/", "official_url": "https://momath.org/unlimited/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5e241e16c1ecadd790a370250c480807d6372a1b1c2abcfd5e1e64236c26a433-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Composition", "start": "2026-11-08T14:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "Wonderville", "address": "Broadway 1186, 11221 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["science/mathematics", "art"], "description": "Composition is an afternoon event of talks, performances, and demos that intertwine art modalities, mathematics, and code. The lineup includes Dr. Michael Yatauro on quantifying drummers' timing statistically, Cherri Diesel with live code music via Strudel.cc and visuals with Hydra, Brian Bishop's audience-led Breath Choir, Elizabeth Kezia Widjaja's NO FOTO© on flicker and perception, Sophia Sobers' Sonic Pi live code performance Ambient Ecology, and Robbie Lyman, a mathematics professor at Rutgers University, demonstrating digital synthesis of analogue waveforms.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/composition-57513/", "official_url": "https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/composition-11-8-26", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e58126c3f002a4fcaeaec37326b75796be22b633935b1909e8d27eb0185685c9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MAPS, the MoMath Annual Puzzle-hunt Series", "start": "2026-11-08T13:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "National Museum of Mathematics", "address": "5th Avenue 225, 10010 New York", "price": "Free with general admission!", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "quiz-games", "tags": ["games/puzzle"], "description": "MAPS, the MoMath Annual Puzzle-hunt Series, is a puzzle hunt for teams of 3 to 6 that starts at the Museum and involves some amount of walking, rain or shine. The third iteration of the series is designed by Rik Sengupta and Misha Ivkov, longtime puzzle solvers, writers, and enthusiasts. Teams investigate a mysterious culprit who has been twisting things out of proportion in a wonderland gone wrong, spotting patterns to nab them. The hunt offers a Standard mode for newcomers and an Expert mode for experienced puzzle hunters.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/maps-the-momath-annual-puzzle-hunt-series-54104/", "official_url": "https://momath.org/maps", "image": ""}]}