{"id":1059,"date":"2019-06-06T20:57:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2019-06-06T20:57:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T00:57:59","slug":"a-mathematician-in-the-jury-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/06\/a-mathematician-in-the-jury-box\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mathematician in the Jury Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1057\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mathematician-in-Jury-Fig3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"164\" \/>This is a great <a href=\"https:\/\/mathenchant.wordpress.com\/2019\/05\/16\/a-mathematician-in-the-jury-box-or-but-how-should-we-define-intoxicated\/\">posting<\/a> by the mathematician James Propp on his website <a href=\"https:\/\/mathenchant.wordpress.com\/\">Mathematical Enchantments<\/a>, not only for the main story about his experience as a mathematician at a trial, but also for his short excursion into the idea of definitions in mathematics\u2014basically the same topic I was trying to address in my posts on \u201cA Meditation on \u2018Is\u2019 in Mathematics\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/06\/meditation-on-is-in-mathematics-i-zenos-paradox\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/06\/meditation-on-is-in-mathematics-ii-mathematical-reality\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I would excerpt such an article and provide the link to the full article, but given the short half-life of links I have also provided a full PDF copy just in case. You should visit the link to see the comments, which I have not included (Propp is lucky to have some of those). In fact, you should take the opportunity to peruse a number of his articles, if you have not already, which are longer in nature, appear monthly, and provide some great insights into mathematics (his pseudosphere icon is the Beltrami surface, which he discusses elsewhere).<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Mathematician-in-Jury-190516.pdf\">A Mathematician in the Jury Box<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a great posting by the mathematician James Propp on his website Mathematical Enchantments, not only for the main story about his experience as a mathematician at a trial, but also for his short excursion into the idea of definitions in mathematics\u2014basically the same topic I was trying to address in my posts on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[142,143,144],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices","tag-james-propp","tag-math-definitions","tag-mathematician-in-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}