{"id":115824,"date":"2020-11-13T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/xzavier-herbert-a-bright-star-in-space-math"},"modified":"2020-11-13T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T00:22:18","slug":"xzavier-herbert-a-bright-star-in-space-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/xzavier-herbert-a-bright-star-in-space-math","title":{"rendered":"Xzavier Herbert, a bright star in space math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/xzavier-herbert-a-bright-star-in-space-math.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sophomore math major Xzavier Herbert was never much into science fiction or the space program, but his skills in pure mathematics seem to keep drawing him into NASA\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n<p>With an interest in representation theory, Herbert spent the summer virtually at NASA, studying connections between classical information theory and quantum information theory, each of which corresponds to a different set of laws: classical physics and quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m doing involves how representation theory allows us to draw a direct analog from classical information theory to quantum information theory,\u201d Herbert says. \u201cIt turns out that there is a mathematical way of justifying how these are related.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophomore math major Xzavier Herbert was never much into science fiction or the space program, but his skills in pure mathematics seem to keep drawing him into NASA\u2019s orbit. With an interest in representation theory, Herbert spent the summer virtually at NASA, studying connections between classical information theory and quantum information theory, each of which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,1617,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-quantum-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115824","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=115824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}