{"id":1483,"date":"2011-11-29T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2011-11-29T11:57:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:57:13","slug":"six-quotes-hall-on-plato-and-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/11\/29\/six-quotes-hall-on-plato-and-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Quotes: Hall on Plato and Math"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. “I went back to all the advice I’ve been given about talking to a big group, and they said I have to tell a joke. I don’t know many jokes and all the ones I do know are math jokes. [. . . ] That was a joke.”<\/li>\n
  2. “Math trains you to see what is really meant, not the shadows around us; this may be the first step in understanding ‘Truth’ and ‘Justice’.”<\/li>\n
  3. “There is only one way of knowing: the mathematical way of knowing. You can’t know something any other way.”<\/li>\n
  4. “Why is math so successful, why does it last? Because in math, we don’t accept a statement as true unless it has a proof — an explanation of why a fact has to be true.”<\/li>\n
  5. “As I face the long winter of life I don’t know if I can cling to proofs for warmth, but I can trust them, because they’ll always be here and they’ll always be true. That’s very comforting as I get older.”<\/li>\n
  6. “There are just five Platonic solids. But why <\/em>are there only five? There’s no proof, no explanation of why <\/em>this must be so.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As recorded by Core office employee Winona Hudak during Prof. Richard Hall’<\/a>s discussion of mathematics and <\/em>The Republic, at the November 29th CC101 lecture.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    “I went back to all the advice I’ve been given about talking to a big group, and they said I have to tell a joke. I don’t know many jokes and all the ones I do know are math jokes. [. . . ] That was a joke.” “Math trains you to see what is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3860,4151],"tags":[7092,4218,5723,6683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}