{"id":164,"date":"2014-07-25T21:35:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T21:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/?p=164"},"modified":"2014-07-25T21:35:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T21:35:59","slug":"math-the-only-universal-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/updates\/math-the-only-universal-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Math, the only Universal Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">&#8220;Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.&#8221; ~Joseph Fourier<\/p>\n<p>It has been said that math is the language of the universe or the only universal language.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no simpler, more fundamental way of expressing the universe than through the basic ideas of equality and inequality, which in turn lead to the concept of quantification, which le<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ads to the concept of value and numbers, and once we have numbers,the rest of mathematics seems to bloom from all around us.&#8221; ~Quarks to Quasars<\/p>\n<p>Conjecture: Perhaps the way the world works or should work would make more sense if we all begin communicating in a mathematical language. Then we could develop more seasoned problem solving skills that might lead us to an environment that involves fewer unsolved problems.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.&#8221; ~Joseph Fourier It has been said that math is the language of the universe or the only universal language. &#8220;There is no simpler, more fundamental way of expressing the universe than through the basic ideas of equality and inequality, which in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/updates\/math-the-only-universal-language\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Math, the only Universal Language<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.pencol.edu\/evewallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}