{"id":21751,"date":"2012-12-16T17:09:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T21:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=21751"},"modified":"2012-12-16T17:09:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T21:09:13","slug":"mathematical-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/12\/16\/mathematical-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mathematical Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21752 alignleft\" alt=\"mathword\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/12\/mathword.jpg\" width=\"419\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/12\/mathword.jpg 524w, https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/12\/mathword-300x70.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/>Earlier today, I was talking with someone who brought up &#8220;eigenvalues.&#8221; I answered their questions; however, I realized that I had no clue where the word comes from or what it really insinuates. In fact, there are many math terms that I haven&#8217;t the slightest clue where they originated. Immediately I began a Google search for history of math terms. I found a website by <a href=\"http:\/\/jeff560.tripod.com\/mathword.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Miller<\/a>\u00a0with a rather extensive listing of terms.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you find!<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, I was talking with someone who brought up &#8220;eigenvalues.&#8221; I answered their questions; however, I realized that I had no clue where the word comes from or what it really insinuates. In fact, there are many math terms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/12\/16\/mathematical-terms\/\">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\/2012\/12\/16\/mathematical-terms\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"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":[8,12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-math","category-mathematics-online"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-5EP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751","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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}