{"id":5467,"date":"2014-05-27T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2014-05-27T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T21:22:08","slug":"walkingrandomly-in-50-visions-of-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5467","title":{"rendered":"WalkingRandomly in ’50 Visions of Mathematics’"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year sees the 50th anniversary of the UK’s Institute of Mathematics and its Applications<\/a> (IMA). \u00a0As part of the celebrations, the IMA has published a book called 50 Visions of Mathematics<\/a>\"\".<\/p>\n

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Edited by Sam Parc<\/a>, the book contains 50 mini chapters covering many aspects of mathematics written for the general reader. Topics include subjects such as ‘Whats the use of a quadratic equation’, ‘The mathematics of obesity’, ‘A glass of bubbly’ and ‘Motorway Mathematics’. \u00a0The full list can be found under the ‘Table of Contents’ tab at\u00a0http:\/\/ukcatalogue.oup.com\/product\/9780198701811.do<\/a><\/p>\n

The level of mathematics required to understand this book isn’t high at all which makes it suitable for anyone with even a passing interest in the subject.<\/p>\n

Along with the 50 essays, there are also 50 full colour mathematical images with number 6 being contributed by yours truly — based on some Mathematica code I wrote a few years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year sees the 50th anniversary of the UK’s Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA). \u00a0As part of the celebrations, the IMA has published a book called 50 Visions of Mathematics. Edited by Sam Parc, the book contains 50 mini chapters covering many aspects of mathematics written for the general reader. Topics include subjects […]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-walking-randomly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1qb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467","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=5467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5469,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5467\/revisions\/5469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}