{"id":4487,"date":"2014-08-05T07:55:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T06:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2014-08-05T07:55:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T06:55:32","slug":"happiness-is-a-long-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/2014\/08\/05\/happiness-is-a-long-equation\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiness is a long equation"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you can imagine as a mathematician, the bigger and harder the equations the happier I am. Not really, we look for pattens and elegance rather than just difficult equations, though of course difficult equations can be elegant and contain a lot of interesting structure.<\/p>\n

Anyway, scientists now have an equation for happiness and here it is<\/p>\n

\"happy\"
\nTaken from [1].<\/p>\n

Now we just need to apply some calculus to find the maxima (local or global I’m not fussy) and find out just how happy a mathematician can be!<\/p>\n

Reference<\/strong>
\n[1] Robb B. Rutledge, Nikolina Skandali, Peter Dayan, and Raymond J. Dolan, A computational and neural model of momentary subjective well-being, PNAS 2014 : 1407535111v1-201407535.<\/p>\n

Link<\/strong>
\nEquation ‘can predict momentary happiness’<\/a> BBC News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you can imagine as a mathematician, the bigger and harder the equations the happier I am. Not really, we look for pattens and elegance rather than just difficult equations, though of course difficult equations can be elegant and contain a lot of interesting structure. Anyway, scientists now have an equation for happiness and here … Continue reading Happiness is a long equation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-general-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/ajb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}