{"id":1378,"date":"2008-10-10T16:25:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T08:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2019-07-08T10:17:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T02:17:23","slug":"what-part-of-didnt-you-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/what-part-of-didnt-you-understand-1378","title":{"rendered":"What part of &#8230; didn&#8217;t you understand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is fun. A lot of mathematics looks like a foreign language, so the question in the image is reasonable:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/i215.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc84\/Luiscauis87\/imagenplayera.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"math_funny Pictures, Images and Photos\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/photobucket.com\/images\/math\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Image source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For some background (for the math nerds), see<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/numbers\/pi.php\">Pi (&pi;)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/factorials-and-the-gamma-function-4350\">Factorials and the gamma function (&Gamma)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Riemann_zeta_function\">Riemann Zeta Function<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/empslocal.ex.ac.uk\/people\/staff\/mrwatkin\/zeta\/fnleqn.htm\">Riemann Functional Equation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mathematical take on that rhetorical question favored by those in authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12056,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/12056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}