{"id":652558,"date":"2013-04-15T10:24:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ted.com\/?p=74762"},"modified":"2013-04-15T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T14:24:56","slug":"3-talks-to-help-you-celebrate-mathematician-leonhard-eulers-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/652558","title":{"rendered":"3 talks to help you celebrate mathematician Leonhard Euler&rsquo;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74768\" alt=\"Google-Doodle-Leonhard-Euler\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/google-doodle-leonhard-euler.jpg?w=900\"   \/>If you\u2019ve Googled anything this morning, you\u2019ve probably noticed that the site\u2019s logo features an orb-shaped graph instead of a second \u2018o,\u2019 plus all sorts of equations like \u201cV \u2013E + F = 2.\u201d The doodle is an homage to Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, who was born on this day in 1707. The man responsible for\u00a0geometry, trigonometry, algebra, number theory and infinitesimal calculus, he also made significant contributions to the world of physics, mechanics, fluid dynamics and astronomy. He\u2019s considered one of the most game-changing mathematicians ever.<\/p>\n<p>Here, three great TED Talks about math to help you celebrate his birthday.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/scott_rickard_the_beautiful_math_behind_the_ugliest_music.html\">Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the ugliest music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/conrad_wolfram_teaching_kids_real_math_with_computers.html\">Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/robert_lang_folds_way_new_origami.html\">Robert Lang: The math and magic of origami<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And below, a painting of the man himself:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74764\" alt=\"Leonhard-Euler-main\" src=\"http:\/\/tedconfblog.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/leonhard-euler-main.jpg?w=900\"   \/><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74762\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tedconfblog.wordpress.com\/74762\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blog.ted.com&#038;blog=14795620&#038;%23038;post=74762&#038;%23038;subd=tedconfblog&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TEDBlog\/~4\/SHcBOa2mV90\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve Googled anything this morning, you\u2019ve probably noticed that the site\u2019s logo features an orb-shaped graph instead of a second \u2018o,\u2019 plus all sorts of equations like \u201cV \u2013E + F = 2.\u201d The doodle is an homage to Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, who was born on this day in 1707. The man responsible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652558","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\/7344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}