{"id":233056,"date":"2026-03-11T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/can-the-most-abstract-math-make-the-world-a-better-place"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:32:24","slug":"can-the-most-abstract-math-make-the-world-a-better-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/can-the-most-abstract-math-make-the-world-a-better-place","title":{"rendered":"Can the Most Abstract Math Make the World a Better Place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-the-most-abstract-math-make-the-world-a-better-place.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores whether applied category theory can be \u201cgreen\u201d math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columnist Natalie Wolchover explores whether applied category theory can be \u201cgreen\u201d math.<\/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-233056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233056","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=233056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}