{"id":100,"date":"2008-04-22T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T11:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=100"},"modified":"2008-04-22T12:40:11","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T11:40:11","slug":"carnival-of-mathematics-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Carnival of Mathematics #31"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/recursed.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/carnival-of-mathematics-31.html\">31st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics<\/a> is up over at <a href=\"http:\/\/recursed.blogspot.com\/\">Recursivity<\/a>.  As always, there is a wide variety of material of offer with everything from recreational mathematics through to graduate level stuff.  I liked the post on <a href=\"http:\/\/letsplaymath.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/14\/puzzle-figurate-numbers\/\">figurative numbers<\/a> by Denise over at <a href=\"http:\/\/letsplaymath.wordpress.com\/\">Let&#8217;s play math<\/a> because I recently read about them in the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FRecreations-Theory-Numbers-H-Beiler%2Fdp%2F0486210960%2F&amp;tag=walkingrandom-21&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738\">Recreations in the Theory of Numbers<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=walkingrandom-21&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/> by Arthur Beiler. For a moment I thought it would be fun to write a Wolfram Demonstration about figurative numbers but it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/PolygonalNumbers\/\">already been done<\/a> &#8211; oh well, never mind.  Enjoy the carnival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/demonstrations.wolfram.com\/PolygonalNumbers\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/mathematica\/polygonal_numbers.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 31st edition of the Carnival of Mathematics is up over at Recursivity. As always, there is a wide variety of material of offer with everything from recreational mathematics through to graduate level stuff. I liked the post on figurative numbers by Denise over at Let&#8217;s play math because I recently read about them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-math"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}