{"id":935,"date":"2010-02-02T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2010-02-02T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T20:06:53","slug":"from-fish-to-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"From Fish to Infinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Strogatz is a name I recognize from NPR. I&#8217;ve heard him on Radio Lab as a go to mathematician who can explain complex ideas (stochasticity) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/radiolab\/episodes\/2009\/09\/11\">very simply<\/a>. He&#8217;s writing a new series of articles for the NYT on math.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI\u2019ll be writing about the elements of mathematics, from pre-school to grad school, for anyone out there who\u2019d like to have a second chance at the subject \u2014 but this time from an adult perspective. It\u2019s not intended to be remedial. The goal is to give you a better feeling for what math is all about and why it\u2019s so enthralling to those who get it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/from-fish-to-infinity\/\">So, let\u2019s begin with pre-school.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be tuning in.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/from-fish-to-infinity\/\">Article: From Fish to Infinity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Strogatz is a name I recognize from NPR. I&#8217;ve heard him on Radio Lab as a go to mathematician who can explain complex ideas (stochasticity) very simply. He&#8217;s writing a new series of articles for the NYT on math. I\u2019ll be writing about the elements of mathematics, from pre-school to grad school, for anyone&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[10,99],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-links","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}