{"id":24327,"date":"2013-11-28T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T04:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/?p=24327"},"modified":"2014-06-19T11:03:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:03:41","slug":"holiday-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/11\/28\/holiday-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-24331\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2013\/11\/lenny_the_turkey_running_crazy_ty_wht.gif\" alt=\"lenny_the_turkey_running_crazy_ty_wht\" width=\"64\" height=\"48\" \/>I hope everyone is having a wonderful November\u2014happy holidays, all! I thought it would be fun to share a couple math- and holiday-related links. This month marks a historic overlap between Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, as well as the annual celebration of Fibonacci Day (which took place 11\/23 in honor of the first several Fibonacci numbers). Here are some posts I found interesting.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jacob Karamas discusses math, marketing, and \u201cThanksgivukkah\u201d at <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2013\/11\/26\/historic-thanksgiving-hanukkah-overlap-leads-to-math-and-marketing\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Algemeiner<\/a><\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Jonathan Mizrahi further explores the math behind the two holidays coinciding <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanmizrahi.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">at his blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Vi Hart has a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0\" target=\"_blank\">three-part<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lOIP_Z_-0Hs\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=14-NdQwKz9w\" target=\"_blank\">series<\/a> on Fibonacci numbers observed in nature.<\/li>\n<li>At Wikipedia, Fibonacci numbers <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fibonacci_numbers_in_popular_culture\" target=\"_blank\">in popular culture<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you enjoy the links, and again, happy holidays!<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone is having a wonderful November\u2014happy holidays, all! I thought it would be fun to share a couple math- and holiday-related links. This month marks a historic overlap between Hanukkah and Thanksgiving, as well as the annual celebration &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2013\/11\/28\/holiday-math\/\">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\/2013\/11\/28\/holiday-math\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-in-pop-culture","category-mathematics-in-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-6kn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24327","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24327"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24900,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24327\/revisions\/24900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}