{"id":767,"date":"2019-03-20T14:41:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=767"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:41:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T18:41:53","slug":"who-gets-to-be-called-a-mathematician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/20\/who-gets-to-be-called-a-mathematician\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Gets To Be Called A Mathematician?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-765\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/To-Be-a-Mathematician-Fig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>A mathematics friend of mine just sent me this link to a 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/q-e-d\/who-gets-to-be-called-a-mathematician-15f73f2d0e5d\">posting<\/a> by \u201crecovering mathematician\u201d Junaid Mubeen that I found most apt. If you haven\u2019t seen it yet, take a look.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[M]athematics need not be situated at the extremes of established knowledge. We can all revel in problems whose solutions are known. Even when humankind has exhausted its capacity to extend its collective knowledge base, as individuals our ignorance is what keeps our mathematical instincts aflame. Problem solving lies between the boundaries of what we know and what we seek. This sweet spot is where we all\u2014novices and experts alike\u2014get to bend and twist what we know to forge new truths for ourselves. Who cares if our discoveries are already known to the rest of the world (or machines, for that matter)? The satisfaction of finding my own solution, of pushing through my own knowledge limits, is as enthralling as the pursuit of \u2018new\u2019 proofs promised by research mathematics. Let the machines come; mathematics does not belong to the omnipotent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This view echoes my feeling that we can enjoy performing music even if we can\u2019t compose it. See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/To-Be-A-Mathematician-171105.pdf\">Who Gets To Be Called A Mathematician<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematics friend of mine just sent me this link to a 2017 posting by \u201crecovering mathematician\u201d Junaid Mubeen that I found most apt. If you haven\u2019t seen it yet, take a look. \u201c[M]athematics need not be situated at the extremes of established knowledge. We can all revel in problems whose solutions are known. Even [&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":[114],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-voices","tag-being-a-mathematician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","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=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}