{"id":3264,"date":"2023-07-29T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T16:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2025-06-06T16:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T20:06:13","slug":"the-lure-of-mathematics-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/29\/the-lure-of-mathematics-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lure of Mathematics Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3262\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lure-of-Math-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lure-of-Math-Fig2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lure-of-Math-Fig2-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>A prevalent theme of much of popular mathematical exposition and debates about mathematics education concerns how to interest a wider population in matters mathematical.\u00a0 For the most part I feel that essays that try to present the \u201cbeauty\u201d of mathematics are doomed to failure, as are most discussions of esthetics.\u00a0 The underlying goal of such writing is a legitimate and laudable attempt to show the appeal of math.\u00a0 But I fear it succeeds only with those already converted.\u00a0 So is there another way?<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Lure-of-Mathematics-Conundrum-230728.pdf\">Lure of Mathematics Conundrum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prevalent theme of much of popular mathematical exposition and debates about mathematics education concerns how to interest a wider population in matters mathematical.\u00a0 For the most part I feel that essays that try to present the \u201cbeauty\u201d of mathematics are doomed to failure, as are most discussions of esthetics.\u00a0 The underlying goal of such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[258,103],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-commentary","tag-math-education","tag-soapbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","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=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3265,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions\/3265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}