{"id":82383,"date":"2018-09-06T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra"},"modified":"2018-09-06T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:42:42","slug":"the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra","title":{"rendered":"The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nineteenth-century discovery of numbers called \u201cquaternions\u201d gave mathematicians a way to describe rotations in space, forever changing physics and math.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/the-strange-numbers-that-birthed-modern-algebra-20180906\/\">https:\/\/www.quantamagazine.org\/the-strange-numbers-that-birt...-20180906\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nineteenth-century discovery of numbers called \u201cquaternions\u201d gave mathematicians a way to describe rotations in space, forever changing physics and math.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82383","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=82383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}