{"id":4726,"date":"2010-02-03T03:00:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2010-02-03T03:00:06","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:00:06","slug":"one-fish-two-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4726","title":{"rendered":"One Fish, Two Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/31\/from-fish-to-infinity\/\">From Fish to Infinity<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have a friend who gets a tremendous kick out of science, even though he\u2019s an artist. Whenever we get together all he wants to do is chat about the latest thing in evolution or quantum mechanics. But when it comes to math, he feels at sea, and it saddens him. The strange symbols keep him out. He says he doesn\u2019t even know how to pronounce them.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, his alienation runs a lot deeper. He\u2019s not sure what mathematicians do all day, or what they mean when they say a proof is elegant. Sometimes we joke that I just should sit him down and teach him everything, starting with 1 + 1 = 2 and going as far as we can.<\/p>\n<p>Crazy as it sounds, over the next several weeks I\u2019m going to try to do something close to that. I\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><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fish to Infinity I have a friend who gets a tremendous kick out of science, even though he\u2019s an artist. Whenever we get together all he wants to do is chat about the latest thing in evolution or quantum &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4726\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","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=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}