{"id":2536,"date":"2018-10-10T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2018-10-10T12:45:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:45:06","slug":"new-york-academy-of-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/events\/new-york-academy-of-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Mathematical Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday October 10, IFF director Margaret Wertheim is doing a conversation at the <strong>New York Academy of Sciences<\/strong>, entitled &#8220;<em>The Mystery of Our Mathematical Reality&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em>Ms. Wertheim will be in conversation with renowned string theorist Dr. Sylvester James Gates, one of our nation&#8217;s few African-American professors of physics. The event is moderated by Steve Paulson, host of NPR&#8217;s acclaimed show <em>To the Best Of Our Knowledge<\/em>, and will later be broadcast there. The discussion will delve into Eugene Wigner&#8217;s famous comment about &#8220;the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in nature,&#8221; and what does it <em>mean<\/em> that we find math so widely and fruitfully embodied in material things<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-10-at-4.34.29-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2538\" src=\"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-10-at-4.34.29-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"942\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-10-at-4.34.29-PM.png 942w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-10-at-4.34.29-PM-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Screen-Shot-2018-10-10-at-4.34.29-PM-768x391.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 942px) 100vw, 942px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event is part of the NYAS series &#8220;What is the Nature of Reality?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyas.org\/events\/2018\/the-mystery-of-our-mathematical-universe\/\">Event webpage:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday October 10, IFF director Margaret Wertheim is doing a conversation at the New York Academy of Sciences, entitled &#8220;The Mystery of Our Mathematical Reality&#8221;.\u00a0Ms. Wertheim will be in conversation with renowned string theorist Dr. Sylvester James Gates, one of our nation&#8217;s few African-American professors of physics. The event is moderated by Steve Paulson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}