{"id":471,"date":"2007-12-14T15:53:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T14:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/wordpress\/?p=471"},"modified":"2016-04-30T10:28:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:28:18","slug":"some-magic-math-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/some-magic-math-for-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Some magic math for the weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object id=\"VE_Player\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" align=\"middle\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/ARTHURBENJAMIN-2005_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noscale\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/ARTHURBENJAMIN-2005_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true\" \/><embed id=\"VE_Player\" width=\"320\" height=\"285\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/loader.swf\" FlashVars=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/ARTHURBENJAMIN-2005_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true\" quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" scale=\"noscale\" wmode=\"window\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"bgColor=FFFFFF&amp;file=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/movies\/ARTHURBENJAMIN-2005_high.flv&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;fullscreenURL=http:\/\/static.videoegg.com\/ted\/flash\/fullscreen.html&amp;forcePlay=false&amp;logo=&amp;allowFullscreen=true\" align=\"middle\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you got some spare time on the weekend listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/view\/id\/177\">Arthur Benjamin<\/a>. He makes numbers dance. In his day job, he&#8217;s a professor<br \/> of math at Harvey Mudd College; in his other day job, he&#8217;s a<br \/> &#8220;Mathemagician,&#8221; taking the stage to perform high-speed<br \/> mental calculations, memorizations and other astounding math stunts.<br \/> It&#8217;s part of his drive to teach math and mental agility in interesting<br \/> ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematician and magician Arthur Benjamin combines his two passions in &#8220;Mathemagics,&#8221; a mind-boggling presentation of lightning calculations and other feats of mathematical agility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2294],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biestmilch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}