{"id":2815,"date":"2012-03-23T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=2815"},"modified":"2012-03-23T12:53:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T16:53:01","slug":"hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/03\/23\/hunger-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn&#8217;t mattered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2816\" title=\"Hunger Games\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/03\/Hunger-Games-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hunger Games\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/03\/Hunger-Games-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/files\/2012\/03\/Hunger-Games.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>With the movie release yesterday, I&#8217;m sure many of you have heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/hunger-games-suzanne-collins\/1100171585\" target=\"_blank\">The Hunger Games<\/a>. I had never read the books, but I decided to start the first one last night. (I never like seeing movies about books without first reading the book.) Reading through, I noticed that one of the chapters mentioned a lot of (elementary) probability. It was refreshing to see that a popular book mentioned mathematical topics in an entertaining way (and accurate!).<\/p>\n<p>Have you read any good books lately that accurately or inaccurately mention math?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn&#8217;t mattered. With the movie release yesterday, I&#8217;m sure many of you have heard of The Hunger Games. I had never read the books, but I decided to start the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2012\/03\/23\/hunger-games\/\">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\/03\/23\/hunger-games\/><\/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":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","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-Jp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","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=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}