{"id":681414,"date":"2021-02-17T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=681414"},"modified":"2021-02-17T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:51:47","slug":"in-response-to-stephen-colbert-professor-says-spice-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=681414","title":{"rendered":"In response to Stephen Colbert, professor says &#039;spice it up&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To provoke more interest and excitement for students and lecturers alike, a professor from Florida Atlantic University&#8217;s College of Engineering and Computer Science is spicing up the study of complex differential mathematical equations using relevant history of algebra. In a paper published in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Isaac Elishakoff, Ph.D., provides a refreshing perspective and a special &#8220;shout out&#8221; to Stephen Colbert, comedian and host of CBS&#8217;s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. His motivation? Colbert previously referred to mathematical equations as the devil&#8217;s sentences and an unnatural commingling of letters and numbers\u2014with the worst being the quadratic equation\u2014an infernal salad of numbers, letters and symbols.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-02-response-stephen-colbert-professor-spice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">In response to Stephen Colbert, professor says &#8216;spice it up&#8217;<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To provoke more interest and excitement for students and lecturers alike, a professor from Florida Atlantic University&#8217;s College of Engineering and Computer Science is spicing up the study of complex&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681414","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681414\/revisions"}],"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=681414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}