{"id":591662,"date":"2019-03-14T07:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e564789543ca6f83d804acbfc2077723"},"modified":"2019-03-14T07:13:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:13:02","slug":"video-our-endless-fascination-with-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=591662","title":{"rendered":"Video: Our endless fascination with pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries, pi\u2014the ratio of a circle&#8217;s circumference to its diameter\u2014has fascinated mathematicians and scientists. The number, which is infinite but never falls into a repeating pattern, is used in formulae throughout the sciences. For more perspective on the significance and fascination with the number, for Pi Day (3.14) the Gazette spoke with Jacob Barandes, a lecturer and director of graduate studies for physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries, pi&mdash;the ratio of a circle&#8217;s circumference to its diameter&mdash;has fascinated mathematicians and scientists. The number, which is infinite but never falls into a repeating pattern, is used in formulae throughout the sciences. For more perspective on the significance and fascination with the number, for Pi Day (3.14) the Gazette spoke with Jacob Barandes, a lecturer and director of graduate studies for physics.<\/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-591662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591662","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=591662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591663,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591662\/revisions\/591663"}],"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=591662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}