{"id":272,"date":"2007-01-12T20:43:55","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T20:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2007\/01\/12\/back-to-the-basics\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T20:43:55","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T20:43:55","slug":"back-to-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/12\/back-to-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Basics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at ScienceBlogs, we&#8217;ve got our own back-channel forums for the bloggers to chat with each other. An idea that came up, which a bunch of us are interested in, is doing some posts about basic definitions and basic concepts.<br \/>\nThere are many people who read various blogs around here who&#8217;ve had problems with definitions of some basic ideas.  For example, there&#8217;s the word vector &#8211; there are at least two very different uses of the word vector around here at SB: there&#8217;s the form that people like me use (the mathematical vector), and there&#8217;s the form that epidemiologists\/biologists use.<br \/>\nFor another example, there are things like the logic and proofs &#8211; a lot of people just aren&#8217;t familiar with the concept of a proof, or how to tell whether an argument is a proper mathematical proof, or whether a conclusion follows logically from an argument.<br \/>\nSo the question: what kinds of basic ideas or terms would you like to see a very basic-level introductory post about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at ScienceBlogs, we&#8217;ve got our own back-channel forums for the bloggers to chat with each other. An idea that came up, which a bunch of us are interested in, is doing some posts about basic definitions and basic concepts. There are many people who read various blogs around here who&#8217;ve had problems with definitions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39],"tags":[308],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","tag-meta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-4o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}