{"id":22,"date":"2002-04-19T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2002-04-19T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2010-01-18T14:32:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T14:32:25","slug":"the-ball-visits-the-home-of-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/blog\/2002\/04\/19\/the-ball-visits-the-home-of-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ball visits the home of Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Ball at the Registan<\/p>\n

The Registan in Samarkhand is where Al Ghorasmi wrote his famous text “Al Jabr”. I feel particularly privileged to have sat where he most probably sat – we now recognise his name as ‘algorithm’ and his book gave us ‘algebra’ – I use these every day of my programming life.<\/p>\n

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\nA Buckyball<\/p>\n

The Ball itself is another mathematical object, named much more recently after R. Buckminster Fuller, another scientific visionary – its basic form is called a Fullerine or a Buckyball. In nature this shape occurs as Carbon 60, a molecular-sized football which can bounce even when travelling at half the speed of light. You can read more about it in this article on soccerballworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Ball at the Registan<\/p>\n

The Registan in Samarkhand is where Al Ghorasmi wrote his famous text “Al Jabr”. I feel particularly privileged to have sat where he most probably sat – we now recognise his name as ‘algorithm’ and his book gave us ‘algebra’ – I use these every day of my programming life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uzbekistan"],"geo":{"latitude":39.6542740000000009104041964747011661529541015625,"longitude":66.9756165000000009968061931431293487548828125,"description":null},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}