{"id":120,"date":"2017-04-27T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2017-04-27T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:06:14","slug":"mathematics-in-sci-fi-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Mathematics in Sci-Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is a super-hero in the making.\u00a0 \u201cBut I knew that I had some special talents others lacked.\u00a0 For example, if you drew a line, I could always draw another line that would divide it into the golden ratio: 1.618.\u201d\u00a0 One wonders if \u201cmath-man\u201d could slice his enemies into the same parts with his light saber.\u00a0 He can also \u201ctell at a glance\u201d whether a numerical sequence was divergent or had a summation formula.\u00a0 That would have been helpful to me in Calc class, but out there in the multiverse?\u00a0 It makes me want to diverge from my current project and investigate whether infinite series are actually apparent in nature.\u00a0 Any ideas?\u00a0 Cixin Liu\u2019s <em>The Three Body Problem<\/em> is packed full of little cool discrete ideas in addition to the overwhelmingly amazing imaginary worlds he has created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here is a super-hero in the making.\u00a0 \u201cBut I knew that I had some special talents others lacked.\u00a0 For example, if you drew a line, I could always draw another line that would divide it into the golden ratio: 1.618.\u201d\u00a0 One wonders if \u201cmath-man\u201d could slice his enemies into the same parts with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}