{"id":16630,"date":"2017-02-03T11:34:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16630"},"modified":"2017-02-03T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T17:34:45","slug":"math-and-the-best-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16630","title":{"rendered":"Math and the Best Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If mathematics is a medium for human flourishing, it stands to reason that everyone should have a chance to participate in it. But in his talk Su identified what he views as structural barriers in the mathematical community that dictate who gets the opportunity to succeed in the field \u2014 from the requirements attached to graduate school admissions to implicit assumptions about who looks the part of a budding mathematician.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/20170202-math-and-the-best-life-francis-su-interview\/\">Math and the Best Life \u2014 an Interview With Francis Su | Quanta Magazine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If mathematics is a medium for human flourishing, it stands to reason that everyone should have a chance to participate in it. But in his talk Su identified what he views as structural barriers in the mathematical community that dictate &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16630\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[180],"class_list":["post-16630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16631,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16630\/revisions\/16631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}