{"id":109522,"date":"2019-09-09T15:32:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/09\/all-you-need-is-maths-the-man-using-equations-to-find-love\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T15:32:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T13:32:41","slug":"all-you-need-is-maths-the-man-using-equations-to-find-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109522","title":{"rendered":"All you need is maths? The man using equations to find love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematician Bobby Seagull has tried to use numbers to solve his romantic difficulties. Is he on to something?They say love is a numbers game. Bobby Seagull \u2013 the mathematician who rose to fame as a finalist on University Challenge in 2017 \u2013 took them literally.A few years ago, he sat down to try to work out why he had been so unlucky in life. \u201cI was 32 or 33, I was single, I loved maths and science \u2013 I thought: \u2018Can I use maths and science to help me?\u2019 It was a genuine, earnest attempt.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2019\/sep\/09\/all-you-need-is-maths-the-man-using-equations-to-find-love\" target=\"_blank\">All you need is maths? The man using equations to find love<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematician Bobby Seagull has tried to use numbers to solve his romantic difficulties. Is he on to something?They say love is a numbers game. Bobby Seagull \u2013 the mathematician who rose to fame as a finalist on University Challenge in 2017 \u2013 took them literally.A few years ago, he sat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}