{"id":2026,"date":"2010-09-11T10:03:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T09:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2010-09-12T16:27:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T15:27:52","slug":"mathematical-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/11\/mathematical-ignorance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical Ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst not wishing to dismiss lower forms of knowledge (only joking) I have decided that along with my main war against elephant leg (doner) kebabs that mathematical ignorance needs to be seen as a dangerous state to be in. Some people seem almost proud that they are making themselves open to be manipulated by charlatans and con-men (or both in the case of politicians)&#8230;<\/p>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">Art and literature is trendy and cool,<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">And its hip to be a mathematical fool,<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">But if you&#8217;re the one,<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">Fooled by the next con,<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">You will then feel a bit of a tool.<\/address>\n<address style=\"text-align: center;\">~<br \/>\n<\/address>\n<address> <\/address>\n<p>Incidently a lot of mathematically competent people are ignorant about how maths has shaped our culture. This makes maths ignorant people doubly ignorant. To address this I have started posting scenes from mathematical history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst not wishing to dismiss lower forms of knowledge (only joking) I have decided that along with my main war against elephant leg (doner) kebabs that mathematical ignorance needs to be seen as a dangerous state to be in. Some people seem almost proud that they are making themselves open to be manipulated by charlatans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[343,342,96],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-limerick","tag-gullible","tag-ingnorance","tag-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2029,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikecampworld.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}