{"id":184,"date":"2015-03-05T22:53:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T02:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2015-03-05T22:59:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T02:59:54","slug":"200-year-mistaken-attribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/05\/200-year-mistaken-attribution\/","title":{"rendered":"200-year Mistaken Attribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/curiosamathematica.tumblr.com\/\">curiosa mathematica<\/a> about this recently corrected mistaken attribution:<\/p>\n<p>This guy, Louis Legendre, politician, was mistakenly pictured for&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legendre1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-186\" src=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legendre1.jpg\" alt=\"legendre\" width=\"451\" height=\"524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legendre1.jpg 451w, https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legendre1-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>this guy, Adrien-Marie Legendre, mathematician, for two centuries!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legendre-the-mathematician.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-187\" src=\"http:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/legendre-the-mathematician.jpg\" alt=\"legendre the mathematician\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sure, some might say, well, they did him a favor. I bet both would disagree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learned from curiosa mathematica about this recently corrected mistaken attribution: This guy, Louis Legendre, politician, was mistakenly pictured for&#8230;. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; this guy, Adrien-Marie Legendre, mathematician, for two centuries! &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sure, some might say, well, they did him a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-facts","category-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamestantum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}