{"id":2,"date":"2009-06-10T01:34:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T05:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2009-06-10T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T03:54:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><strong>Math Drudge<\/strong> is maintained by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.experimentalmath.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Bailey<span style=\"font-family: mceinline;\"> and <\/span>Jonathan Borwein<\/a> and is intended to highlight thoughts on the nature of mathematics and of science more generally.  Any similarity with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drudgereport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drudge report<\/a> is totally unintended.<\/p>\n<p>Rather we are motivated by Samuel Johnson\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s 1755\u00ac\u2020<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/learning\/langlit\/dic\/johnson\/drudge\/drudge.html\" target=\"_blank\">definition<\/a> of a:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>lexicographer<\/em>, n., \u00ac\u2020a writer of dictionaries; <span style=\"font-family: mceinline;\">a harmless drudge<\/span>, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.<\/p>\n<p>We take as compass Norman Levitt\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s observation that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u201a\u00c4\u00faThe dictum that everything that people do is \u201a\u00c4\u00facultural\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 \u201a\u00c4\u00b6 licenses the idea that every cultural critic can meaningfully analyze even the most intricate accomplishments of art and science. \u00ac\u2020 \u00ac\u2020\u201a\u00c4\u00b6 \u00ac\u2020\u00ac\u2020It is distinctly weird to listen to pronouncements on the nature of mathematics from the lips of someone who cannot tell you what a complex number is!\u201a\u00c4\u00f9<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">[In Norman Levitt, \u00ac\u2020\u00ac\u2020<em>The Flight From Science and Reason,<\/em> New York Academy of Science, quoted from Science, 11 Oct 1996, pg. 183.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<p>See also \u00ac\u2020<a href=\"http:\/\/www.experimentalmath.info\/quotations.html\">http:\/\/www.experimentalmath.info\/quotations.html<\/a>. \u00ac\u2020Some of our posts will be entirely excerpts from others while some will delineate our own opinions. \u00ac\u2020We welcome email contact.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Math Drudge is maintained by David Bailey and Jonathan Borwein and is intended to highlight thoughts on the nature of mathematics and of science more generally. Any similarity with the Drudge report is totally unintended.<\/p>\n<p>Rather we are motivated by Samuel Johnson\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s 1755\u00ac\u2020definition of a:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">lexicographer, n., \u00ac\u2020a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.<\/p>\n<p>We take as compass Norman Levitt\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s observation that:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201a\u00c4\u00faThe dictum that everything that people do is \u201a\u00c4\u00facultural\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 \u201a\u00c4\u00b6 licenses the idea that every cultural critic can meaningfully analyze <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/about\/\">About<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalmath.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}