{"id":913,"date":"2016-11-09T14:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/?page_id=913"},"modified":"2019-12-18T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T14:30:19","slug":"our-roots","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/about-us\/our-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Academic Ancestry<\/h2>\n<p>We are 18th generation Newtonians*, our direct academic ancestry is traceable back to Philips Morse, Lord Rayleigh, Sir Issac Newton, Galileo Galilei.<\/p>\n<p>Collaboration distance with Paul Erd\u0151s (Erd\u0151s Number) : 5 (Landman)<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank NDSU Mathematics Genealogy Project.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu\/\">https:\/\/genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathscinet\/collaborationDistance.html\">http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathscinet\/collaborationDistance.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>* Issac Newton&#8211;&gt;Roger Cotes&#8211;&gt;Robert Smith&#8211;&gt;Walter Taylor&#8211;&gt;Stephen Whisson&#8211;&gt;Thomas Postlethwaite&#8211;&gt;Thomas Jones&#8211;&gt;Adam Sedgwick&#8211;&gt;William Hopkins&#8211;&gt;George Stokes&#8211;&gt;John Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) (Rayleigh Scattering) &#8211;&gt;Joseph Thomson&#8211;&gt;Karl Compton&#8211;&gt;Philip Morse (Morse Code)&#8211;&gt;Charles Draper&#8211;&gt;Walter McKay&#8211;&gt;Wallace Vander Velde&#8211;&gt;Alan Wilsky&#8211;&gt;Jerry Prince&#8211;&gt;Bennett Landman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic Ancestry We are 18th generation Newtonians*, our direct academic ancestry is traceable back to Philips Morse, Lord Rayleigh, Sir Issac Newton, Galileo Galilei. Collaboration distance with Paul Erd\u0151s (Erd\u0151s Number) : 5 (Landman) We would like to thank NDSU Mathematics Genealogy Project. References: https:\/\/genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu\/ http:\/\/www.ams.org\/mathscinet\/collaborationDistance.html * Issac Newton&#8211;&gt;Roger Cotes&#8211;&gt;Robert Smith&#8211;&gt;Walter Taylor&#8211;&gt;Stephen Whisson&#8211;&gt;Thomas Postlethwaite&#8211;&gt;Thomas Jones&#8211;&gt;Adam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6319,"featured_media":0,"parent":4,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/913\/revisions\/946"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/masi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}