{"id":191092,"date":"2024-06-12T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/mathematicians-cant-agree-what-equals-means-and-thats-a-problem"},"modified":"2024-06-12T12:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:24:05","slug":"mathematicians-cant-agree-what-equals-means-and-thats-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/mathematicians-cant-agree-what-equals-means-and-thats-a-problem","title":{"rendered":"Mathematicians can\u2019t agree what \u2018equals\u2019 means, and that\u2019s a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mathematicians-cant-agree-what-equals-means-and-thats-a-problem2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What does \u201cequals\u201d mean? For mathematicians, this simple question has more than one answer, which is causing issues when it comes to using computers to check proofs. The solution might be to tear up the foundations of maths.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/alex-wilkins\/\" class=\"\">Alex Wilkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does \u201cequals\u201d mean? For mathematicians, this simple question has more than one answer, which is causing issues when it comes to using computers to check proofs. The solution might be to tear up the foundations of maths. By Alex Wilkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191092","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}