{"id":36,"date":"2003-11-12T21:24:52","date_gmt":"2003-11-12T11:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/?p=36"},"modified":"2003-11-12T21:24:52","modified_gmt":"2003-11-12T11:24:52","slug":"understanding-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/understanding-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John von Veumann:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYoung man, in mathematics you don\u2019t understand things, you just get used to them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favourite mathematical quote of all time.  It exactly captures the flavour of so many things, not just in mathematics, but also in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John von Veumann: Young man, in mathematics you don\u2019t understand things, you just get used to them. My favourite mathematical quote of all time. It exactly captures the flavour of so many things, not just in mathematics, but also in life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelnielsen.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}