{"id":278,"date":"2010-05-03T08:38:11","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T08:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=278"},"modified":"2010-05-03T08:38:11","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T08:38:11","slug":"a-good-bit-of-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/03\/a-good-bit-of-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"A Good Bit Of Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those that know me well, know I love a good bit of maths<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a> has been publishing columns by the wonderful Steven Strogatz<\/a> for a good while now. They are thoughtful, clever and very well written – as you’d expect:<\/p>\n

Steven Strogatz is a professor of applied mathematics<\/a> at Cornell University<\/a>. In 2007 he received the Communications Award, a lifetime achievement award<\/a> for the communication of mathematics to the general public. He previously taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/a>, where he received the E.M. Baker Award, an institute-wide teaching prize selected solely by students. “Chaos,” his series of 24 lectures on chaos theory<\/a>, was filmed and produced in 2008 by The Teaching Company<\/a>. He is the author, most recently, of “The Calculus of Friendship<\/a>,” the story of his 30-year correspondence with his high school calculus teacher.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, I can’t really see any of the newspapers in this country doing anything like this in the near future – but while Steven’s articles are available online, I won’t be worrying too much about this country’s lack of numerical knowledge.<\/p>\n

Link<\/strong>: New York Times – All Of Steven Strogatz’ posts<\/a><\/p>\n

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Those that know me well, know I love a good bit of maths. The New York Times has been publishing columns by the wonderful Steven Strogatz for a good while now. They are thoughtful, clever and very well written – as you’d expect: Steven Strogatz is a professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,17,18],"tags":[92,792,1015,1906,1909,1910,1920,2148,2862,2943],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies","category-linkage","category-maths","tag-92","tag-cornell-university","tag-education","tag-massachusetts-institute-of-technology","tag-math","tag-mathematics","tag-may","tag-new-york-times","tag-steven-strogatz","tag-teaching-company","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-4u","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}