{"id":108470,"date":"2020-06-09T21:02:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T04:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-useless-perspective-that-transformed-mathematics"},"modified":"2020-06-09T23:49:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T06:49:20","slug":"the-useless-perspective-that-transformed-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/the-useless-perspective-that-transformed-mathematics","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Useless\u2019 Perspective That Transformed Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mathematics in light of representation theory\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/148780725?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Representation theory was initially dismissed. Today, it\u2019s central to much of mathematics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representation theory was initially dismissed. Today, it\u2019s central to much of mathematics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108470","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=108470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108480,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108470\/revisions\/108480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}