{"id":6786,"date":"2014-01-24T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2014-06-17T12:03:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:03:49","slug":"dyson-about-littlewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/dyson-about-littlewood\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyson about Littlewood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/500px-Symmetric_group_3_Cayley_table_matrices.svg_.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1970\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1970 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/500px-Symmetric_group_3_Cayley_table_matrices.svg_-300x300.png\" alt=\"Multiplication table of the 3x3 permutation matrices\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/500px-Symmetric_group_3_Cayley_table_matrices.svg_-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/500px-Symmetric_group_3_Cayley_table_matrices.svg_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/500px-Symmetric_group_3_Cayley_table_matrices.svg_.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\"Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Edensor_Littlewood\">Littlewood<\/a>, when he makes use of an algebraic identity, always saves himself the trouble of proving it; he maintains that an identity, if true, can be verified in a few lines by anybody obtuse enough to feel the need of verification. My object in the following pages is to confute this assertion.''<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Freeman_Dyson\">Freeman J. Dyson<\/a> in\u00a0<a href=\"\/scripts\/search.php?q=Dyson+Some+guesses+in+the+theory+of+partitions+1944\"><strong>Some Guesses in the Theory of Partitions<\/strong> (1944)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\"Professor Littlewood, when he makes use of an algebraic identity, always saves himself the trouble of proving it; he maintains that an identity, if true,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/dyson-about-littlewood\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dyson about Littlewood<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":56},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7401,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions\/7401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/djalil.chafai.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}