{"id":2245,"date":"2009-03-01T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/03\/01\/the-sunday-function\/"},"modified":"2009-03-01T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:18:00","slug":"the-sunday-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/01\/the-sunday-function\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes forget that we don&#8217;t all read the same blogs, and that it&#8217;s good to recommend some of the fun stuff out there on the internets.  So let me give a shout-out to Matt Springer at <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/\">Built on Facts<\/a>, who had the brilliant idea of discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/sunday_function\/\">a different function every Sunday<\/a>.  Functions are one of those things that are as necessary to math and science as breathing, but which don&#8217;t necessarily percolate into the wider world.  And he (quite correctly, I think) interprets his self-imposed mandate fairly liberally, taking the time to talk about various issues in middle-level mathematics.  Here are some selections from Matt&#8217;s series:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2008\/12\/sunday_function_16.php\">Exponential<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2008\/11\/sunday_function_12.php\">Arctangent<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2008\/10\/sunday_function_9.php\">Witch of Agnesi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2008\/11\/sunday_function_13.php\">Stirling&#8217;s approximation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/builtonfacts\/2008\/09\/sunday_function_6.php\">Continuous but almost-nowhere differentiable<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Consider this an open thread to recommend other stuff we should all be reading.  Or your favorite functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes forget that we don&#8217;t all read the same blogs, and that it&#8217;s good to recommend some of the fun stuff out there on the internets. So let me give a shout-out to Matt Springer at Built on Facts, who had the brilliant idea of discussing a different function every Sunday. Functions are one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-math"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}