{"id":2521,"date":"2002-10-04T15:38:26","date_gmt":"2002-10-04T10:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/04\/the-ig-nobel-prize-for-mathematics\/"},"modified":"2002-10-04T15:38:26","modified_gmt":"2002-10-04T10:08:26","slug":"the-ig-nobel-prize-for-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200210\/the-ig-nobel-prize-for-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ig nobel prize for mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded to K.P. Sreekumar and the late G. Nirmalan of Kerala Agricultural University, India, for their analytical report &#8220;Estimation of the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants&#8221; This and other hilarious pi?ces of actual research at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.improbable.com\/ig\/2002\/ig-winners-2002.html\">2002 Ig Nobel Prizes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awarded to K.P. Sreekumar and the late G. Nirmalan of Kerala Agricultural University, India, for their analytical report &#8220;Estimation of the Total Surface Area in Indian Elephants&#8221; This and other hilarious pi?ces of actual research at 2002 Ig Nobel Prizes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}