{"id":513249,"date":"2018-08-24T09:54:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T13:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=06c3d477effb42d7e8f1f0d1bd48ac58"},"modified":"2018-08-24T09:54:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T13:54:48","slug":"researcher-helps-crack-decades-old-math-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=513249","title":{"rendered":"Researcher helps crack decades-old math problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spiros Michalakis, manager of outreach and staff researcher at Caltech&#8217;s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), and Matthew Hastings, a researcher at Microsoft, have solved one of the world&#8217;s most challenging open problems in the field of mathematical physics. The problem, related to the &#8220;quantum Hall effect,&#8221; was first proposed in 1999 as one of 13 significant unsolved problems to be included on a list maintained by Michael Aizenman, a professor of physics and mathematics at Princeton University and the former president of the International Association of Mathematical Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiros Michalakis, manager of outreach and staff researcher at Caltech&#8217;s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM), and Matthew Hastings, a researcher at Microsoft, have solved one of the world&#8217;s most challenging open problems in the field of&#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-513249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513249","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=513249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513250,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513249\/revisions\/513250"}],"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=513249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}