{"id":3633,"date":"2009-09-15T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2009-09-15T03:00:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T08:00:14","slug":"math-goes-to-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3633","title":{"rendered":"Math Goes to the Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2009\/09\/06\/the_mysterious_equilibrium_of_zombies\/?page=full\">The mysterious equilibrium of zombies<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In any decade there are really only a handful of movies about math (\u201cProof\u201d comes to mind, as well as \u201cA Beautiful Mind\u201d), but a surprising number of movies that end up embodying math, even if it\u2019s accidental. \u201cSix Degrees of Separation\u201d is based on the math of social networks. Thrillers have a special propensity for edgy twists on game theory. And what is a disease-outbreak movie if not an illustration of mathematical epidemiology, with puffy suits? To see movies through their math, sometimes, is to watch a whole different drama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mysterious equilibrium of zombies In any decade there are really only a handful of movies about math (\u201cProof\u201d comes to mind, as well as \u201cA Beautiful Mind\u201d), but a surprising number of movies that end up embodying math, even &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3633\">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":[28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","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=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}