{"id":486,"date":"2006-08-30T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T22:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/08\/30\/want-to-date-a-math-genius\/"},"modified":"2006-08-30T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-30T22:00:34","slug":"want-to-date-a-math-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/08\/30\/want-to-date-a-math-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to date a math genius?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many CEOs of online dating networks can you name who have done advanced math research that led to someone getting the Field&#8217;s Medal &#8212; often called the Nobel Prize of mathematics? I can think of one: my friend Markus Frind, the guy behind PlentyofFish.com, one of the top dating sites in the world. <\/p>\n<p>Markus recently <a href=\"http:\/\/plentyoffish.wordpress.com\/2006\/08\/30\/cited-in-the-fields-medalnobel-prize-in-math\/\">posted a description<\/a> of how he came up with an algorithm that isolated 23 prime numbers in succession for the first time, and how that research was in turn cited by Terence Tao in <a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/PS_cache\/math\/pdf\/0404\/0404188.pdf\">a paper<\/a> he did on prime numbers, a paper that helped contribute to him winning the Fields Medal.<\/p>\n<p>Nice work, Markus. It&#8217;s bad enough that you&#8217;re making $500,000 a month or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workhappy.net\/2006\/06\/interview_with_.html\">whatever it is<\/a> on your dating site (for which you are the only employee). Now you have to be a math genius as well. Next you will tell me that you have a platinum-selling CD and are hanging out with Paris Hilton and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many CEOs of online dating networks can you name who have done advanced math research that led to someone getting the Field&#8217;s Medal &#8212; often called the Nobel Prize of mathematics? I can think of one: my friend Markus Frind, the guy behind PlentyofFish.com, one of the top dating sites in the world. Markus &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/08\/30\/want-to-date-a-math-genius\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Want to date a math genius?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}