{"id":197821,"date":"2024-10-17T03:47:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/big-advance-on-simple-sounding-math-problem-was-a-century-in-the-making"},"modified":"2024-10-17T03:47:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T08:47:32","slug":"big-advance-on-simple-sounding-math-problem-was-a-century-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/big-advance-on-simple-sounding-math-problem-was-a-century-in-the-making","title":{"rendered":"Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/big-advance-on-simple-sounding-math-problem-was-a-century-in-the-making2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On their own, addition and multiplication are simple operations. But the relationship between them is a complicated mystery that mathematicians are still working to understand.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication \u2014 and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On their own, addition and multiplication are simple operations. But the relationship between them is a complicated mystery that mathematicians are still working to understand. A new proof about prime numbers illuminates the subtle relationship between addition and multiplication \u2014 and raises hopes for progress on the famous abc conjecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197821","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}