{"id":1533,"date":"2009-07-22T16:45:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2009-07-22T16:45:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T15:45:42","slug":"the-fish-that-do-advanced-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=1533","title":{"rendered":"The fish that do advanced mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It never ceases to amaze me how researchers manage to find connections between the most seemingly disconnected of things.\u00a0 A researcher at Manchester University, Bill Lionheart, conducts research into the mathematics of &#8216;seeing inside things with electricty&#8217; and <a href=\"http:\/\/billscience.blogspot.com\/\">over at his blog<\/a> he has a great story which basically says that a certain breed of fish are significantly better at this particular branch of mathematics than we are.<\/p>\n<div>\n<object width=\"352\" height=\"264\" data=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/1168940060116\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v\/1168940060116\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>A more detailed version of the story can be found over at the<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/local\/manchester\/hi\/people_and_places\/nature\/newsid_8113000\/8113497.stm\"> BBC Manchester website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>\nOne particular quote I love is &#8220;Weakly electric fish are really interesting to us because they have the ability to solve a challenging mathematical problem when catching their food.&#8221; as it made me wonder how students would feel if they had to solve challenging mathematical problems in order to get their food :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It never ceases to amaze me how researchers manage to find connections between the most seemingly disconnected of things.\u00a0 A researcher at Manchester University, Bill Lionheart, conducts research into the mathematics of &#8216;seeing inside things with electricty&#8217; and over at his blog he has a great story which basically says that a certain breed of [&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-1533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-math"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-oJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533","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=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1539,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions\/1539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}