{"id":9071,"date":"2018-04-25T17:36:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T00:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9071"},"modified":"2018-04-29T17:40:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T00:40:50","slug":"grand-unified-math-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/25\/grand-unified-math-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Unified Math Finally?"},"content":{"rendered":"

from New Scientist<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes<\/h1>\n

For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius could have brought them in sight of the ultimate prize<\/p>\n

By Gilead Amit<\/p>\n

\"numbers<\/p>\n

IF JOEY was Chloe\u2019s age when he was twice as old as Zoe was, how many times older will Zoe be when Chloe is twice as old as Joey is now?<\/p>\n

Or try this one for size. Two farmers inherit a square field containing a crop planted in a circle. Without knowing the exact size of the field or crop, or the crop\u2019s position within the field, how can they draw a single line to divide both the crop and field equally?<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve either fallen into a cold sweat or you\u2019re sharpening your pencil (if you can\u2019t wait for the answer, you can\u00a0check the bottom of this page). Either way, although both problems count as \u201cmaths\u201d \u2013 or \u201cmath\u201d if you insist \u2013 they are clearly very different. One is arithmetic, which deals with the properties of whole numbers: 1, 2, 3 and so on as far as you can count<\/a>. It cares about how many separate things there are, but not what they look like or how they behave. The other is geometry, a discipline built on ideas of continuity: of lines, shapes and other objects that can be measured, and the spatial relationships between them.<\/p>\n

Mathematicians have long sought to build bridges between these two ancient subjects<\/a>, and construct something like a \u201cgrand unified theory\u201d of their discipline. Just recently, one brilliant young researcher might have brought them decisively closer. His radical new geometrical insights might not only unite mathematics, but also help solve one of the deepest number problems of them all: the riddle of the primes.<\/p>\n

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from New Scientist Theorem of everything: The secret that links numbers and shapes For millennia mathematicians have struggled to unify arithmetic and geometry. Now one young genius could have brought them in sight of the ultimate prize By Gilead Amit IF JOEY was Chloe\u2019s age when he was twice as old as Zoe was, how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}