{"id":29293,"date":"2022-01-25T11:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T16:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=29293"},"modified":"2022-01-25T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T16:19:07","slug":"an-application-of-geography-to-mathematics-history-of-the-integral-of-the-secant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=29293","title":{"rendered":"An Application of Geography to Mathematics: History of the Integral of the Secant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maa.org\/sites\/default\/files\/pdf\/cms_upload\/0025570x15087.di021115.02p0115x.pdf\">An Application of Geography to Mathematics: History of the Integral of the Secant<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How did anyone ever figure out that <br><br>            \u222bsec\u03b8 d\u03b8 = ln | sec \u03b8 + tan \u03b8 | + C ?<br><br>The surprising answer involves the Mercator map projection! Check out this great short article from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maanow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@maanow<\/a>&#39;s Mathematics Magazine (1980).<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pqKsdtDOZW\">https:\/\/t.co\/pqKsdtDOZW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Pn5QuKHcZ\">pic.twitter.com\/7Pn5QuKHcZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Patrick Honner (@MrHonner) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrHonner\/status\/1485243159500177410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Application of Geography to Mathematics: History of the Integral of the Secant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-histoire","category-mathematiques","category-transports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29294,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29293\/revisions\/29294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}