{"id":104808,"date":"2020-04-05T15:49:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T22:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/researchers-solve-one-of-the-most-notorious-open-problems-in-math"},"modified":"2020-04-05T15:49:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T22:49:30","slug":"researchers-solve-one-of-the-most-notorious-open-problems-in-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/researchers-solve-one-of-the-most-notorious-open-problems-in-math","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Solve One of the Most Notorious Open Problems in Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-solve-one-of-the-most-notorious-open-problems-in-math.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk.<\/p>\n<p>The team, which also worked with a colleague from Israel\u2019s Ben-Gurion University, solved the problem in a rush after having a realization one evening. Lead author Omer Tamuz studies both economics and mathematics, using probability theory and ergodic theory as the link\u2014a progressive and blended approach that this year\u2019s Abel Prize-winning mathematicians helped to trailblaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk. The team, which also worked with a colleague from Israel\u2019s Ben-Gurion University, solved the problem in a rush after having a realization one evening. Lead author Omer Tamuz studies both economics and mathematics, using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}