{"id":428035,"date":"2018-01-16T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=911aac5e1a32c17a72c6549cccf44133"},"modified":"2018-01-16T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T17:44:00","slug":"the-fields-medal-fallacy-why-this-math-prize-should-return-to-its-roots-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=428035","title":{"rendered":"The Fields Medal fallacy: Why this math prize should return to its roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fields Medal, whose origins date back to the 1930s, will be issued again this year in August to up to four of the world&#8217;s most accomplished mathematicians under the age of 40. In a commentary for Nature, Michael Barany, a Society of Fellows post-doctoral fellow in history at Dartmouth, proposes that the Fields Medal return to its roots as a tool intended to shape the future of mathematics, rather than recognizing those who have already found the spotlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fields Medal, whose origins date back to the 1930s, will be issued again this year in August to up to four of the world&#8217;s most accomplished mathematicians under the age of 40. In a commentary for Nature, Michael Barany, a Society of Fellows post-do&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428036,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428035\/revisions\/428036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}