{"id":1024,"date":"2019-10-24T13:26:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=1024"},"modified":"2020-10-05T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T17:22:12","slug":"alberto-martinez","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/speaker\/alberto-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberto Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alberto Martinez is originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Most recently, he is the author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/B\/bo28433424.html\" target=\"_blank\">Burned Alive: Giordano Bruno, Galileo &amp; the Inquisition<\/a>\u00a0(Reaktion, 2018). He is also the author of four other books:\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martinezwritings.com\/m\/Cult.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Cult of Pythagoras: Math and Myths\u00a0<\/a>(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012), on the evolution of myths in the history of mathematics.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martinezwritings.com\/m\/ScienceSecrets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Science Secrets: The Truth About Darwin&#8217;s Finches, Einstein&#8217;s Wife, and Other Myths<\/a>\u00a0(University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011). And previously, he published\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martinezwritings.com\/m\/Kinematics.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kinematics: The Lost Origins of Einstein&#8217;s Relativity<\/a>(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.martinezwritings.com\/m\/NegativeMath.html\" target=\"_blank\">Negative Math: How Mathematical Rules Can Be Positively Bent<\/a>\u00a0(Princeton University Press, 2005).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1875,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-1024","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"Martinez","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/1024\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/this-is-democracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}