{"id":1518,"date":"2011-03-16T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T14:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2011-03-16T10:36:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T14:36:48","slug":"mathematicians-are-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/03\/16\/mathematicians-are-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematicians are strange!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.upenn.edu\/~atopaz\/\">Adam Topaz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello everyone! It is around that time when everyone is about to have, or has already had their spring break, so&#8230; have a good break! or, I hope you had a good break! respectively. Today I wanted to share a nice blog-post \/ article that I came across (and I&#8217;m sure many of you have already seen it): <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tanyakhovanova.com\/?p=319\">Should you Date a Mathematician?<\/a> The author&#8217;s blog is also worth checking out as it is quite extensive with posts dating back to 2007.&nbsp;It was interesting reading this article from the &#8220;other side&#8221; (i.e. as a mathematician in a serious relationship with a non-mathematician). At various points I found myself saying &#8220;yep! I do that!;&#8221; for example:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mathematicians are often open and direct. Many mathematicians, like me, have trouble making false statements. I stopped playing \u2014Mafia\u2014 because of that. I prefer people who say what they think and do not hold back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep! I do that!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe after reading this article I will be a little more mindful of my strange mathematical quirks in social situations&#8230; probably not&#8230; In any case, I found this article fun to read and I hope you enjoy it too.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Topaz Hello everyone! It is around that time when everyone is about to have, or has already had their spring break, so&#8230; have a good break! or, I hope you had a good break! respectively. Today I wanted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/03\/16\/mathematicians-are-strange\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/03\/16\/mathematicians-are-strange\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-ou","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}