{"id":1278,"date":"2009-01-26T11:34:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T16:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2009-01-26T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T16:34:45","slug":"im-not-a-mathematician-but-i-play-one-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1278","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m not a Mathematician, but I Play One on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calculus and &#8220;The Method&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/view\/generic\/id\/8974\/title\/A_Prayer_for_Archimedes\">A Prayer for Archimedes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two of the texts hiding in the prayer book have not appeared in any other copy of Archimedes&#8217;s work, so no one but Heiberg had studied them until now. One of them, titled <em>The Method<\/em>, has special historical significance. It could be considered the earliest known work on calculus.<\/p>\n<p>Archimedes wrote <em>The Method<\/em> almost two thousand years before Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz developed calculus in the 1700s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/01\/archimedes-developed-calculus\">via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calculus and &#8220;The Method&#8221; A Prayer for Archimedes Two of the texts hiding in the prayer book have not appeared in any other copy of Archimedes&#8217;s work, so no one but Heiberg had studied them until now. One of them, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1278\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}