{"id":219665,"date":"2010-01-06T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T12:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=34331"},"modified":"2010-01-06T07:10:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T12:10:12","slug":"harvard-prof-receives-iit-m-distinguished-alumnus-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/219665","title":{"rendered":"Harvard prof receives IIT-M distinguished alumnus award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy do you read Shakespeare? And you don\u2019t learn plumbing and electrical work because they are useful in daily life, do you?\u201d responds Harvard University professor L Mahadevan when he\u2019s asked about the relevance of mathematics in daily life. He strongly disagrees with suggestions that mathematics is the toughest subject to learn for students or that the concepts are hard to grasp as teachers do not make the subject interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/chennai\/Harvard-prof-receives-IIT-M-distinguished-alumnus-award\/articleshow\/5411608.cms\">Read more here<\/a> (The Times of India)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy do you read Shakespeare? And you don\u2019t learn plumbing and electrical work because they are useful in daily life, do you?\u201d responds Harvard University professor L Mahadevan when he\u2019s asked about the relevance of mathematics in daily life. He strongly disagrees with suggestions that mathematics is the toughest subject to learn for students or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}