{"id":467,"date":"2011-03-24T21:23:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/blog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2011-03-24T22:02:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T21:02:57","slug":"brilliant-matematician-rediscovers-age-old-formua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Matematician Uncovers Ancient Mystery!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 13 year old son Oscar just sent me this brilliant piece of Mathematics.  It seems as though Maths classes are teaching less abstract Maths than in my day&#8230;  Even my wife laughed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/photo1.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"472\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?attachment_id=472\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/photo1.jpg?fit=450%2C623\" data-orig-size=\"450,623\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"photo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/photo1.jpg?fit=216%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/photo1.jpg?fit=450%2C623\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-472\" title=\"photo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/photo1.jpg?resize=450%2C623\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/photo1.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/photo1.jpg?resize=216%2C300 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and an hour later, my 15 year-old son, Rory sent me this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOQb_mtkEEE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 13 year old son Oscar just sent me this brilliant piece of Mathematics. It seems as though Maths classes are teaching less abstract Maths than in my day&#8230; Even my wife laughed! Oh, and an hour later, my 15 year-old son, Rory sent me this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[62,58,43,53,51],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DQGK-7x","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":243,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=243","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":0},"title":"Great Inventor Dies","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"21\/10\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"There are very, very few people who invent truly new shapes and ideas that come mainstream and change the way people think within their own lifetime.\u00a0 However, Benoit Mandelbrot (who died last Thursday) can be said to be one of these very, very few.\u00a0 He both named and created the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Architecture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lornemitchell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/mandelbrot_set-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":374,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=374","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":1},"title":"2011 is a Sexy Prime Number: Happy New Year!","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"01\/01\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy New Year! 2011 is a sexy prime number, because the numbers 2011 and 2017 are both prime numbers which together have a difference of 6! 2011 is also the sum of 11 CONSECUTIVE prime numbers: 2011=157+163+167+173+179+181+191+193+197+199+211","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mathematics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mathematics","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?cat=43"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":835,"url":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=835","url_meta":{"origin":467,"position":2},"title":"Bedrooms, Markets and Coffee Cups","author":"Lorne Mitchell","date":"17\/01\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Anthony kindly sent me this brilliant short video from Hans Rosling on why economies are made in bedrooms, not markets! 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In the past week we have been taking off the honey and harvesting the goldengages and runner beans that have magically grown through the summer. It is a truly magnificent time of the year! 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