Glen Whitney has a dream. It's a geeky dream, sure, but it's also a democratic one. He wants to bring math back to the people by creating a world-class interactive math museum, the only one of its kind in the country. For the last few years, Whitney has devoted himself to the cause, pushing aside a lucrative career as a hedge-fund algorithm manager to bring the vision of the Math Factory to life.
He's still got a ways to go on his quest—his team still needs a museum site, for example—but his enthusiasm is endless, and he thinks that he has a real chance to convince people that math is not just a hard subject that gets harder the more you look into it. "It's not that non-mathematicians need to be able to understand and enjoy more complicated forms of math," he says. "It's that they need to understand that there are more forms of math than they ever dreamed of, that the world of math is open for exploration by anybody, and that math is something to enjoy and take delight in."
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