{"666308":{"#nid":"666308","#data":{"type":"news","title":"EXTERNAL NEWS - Theodore Hill Cited in News Article","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAn excerpt from \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/opinion\/2023\/02\/811_345745.html\u0022\u003Ethe article\u003C\/a\u003E:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt was anticipated more than a century ago that the distribution of real-world observations\u0026#39; first digits would not be uniform but would exhibit a trend where numbers with lower first digits (1,2,...) occur more frequently than those with higher first digits (...,8,9).\u0026nbsp;This phenomenon is known as Benford\u0026#39;s law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law. It was finally\u0026nbsp;proven in 1995 by\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hill.math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ETheodore P. Hill\u003C\/a\u003E, emeritus professor in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Mathematics\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;This law has been found to apply to a wide range of datasets, from countries\u0026#39; populations to financial data, physical constants and earthquakes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERetired SoM Prof. Emeritus Theodore Hill has been cited in a Korea Times news article.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Retired SoM Prof. Emeritus Theodore Hill has been cited in a Korea Times news article."}],"uid":"34518","created_gmt":"2023-03-01 15:42:58","changed_gmt":"2023-03-01 15:44:45","author":"sbarone7","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"666309":{"id":"666309","type":"image","title":"headshot_theodore_hill","body":null,"created":"1677685472","gmt_created":"2023-03-01 15:44:32","changed":"1677685472","gmt_changed":"2023-03-01 15:44:32","alt":"","file":{"fid":"251933","name":"headshot_theodore_hill.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/headshot_theodore_hill.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/headshot_theodore_hill.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37060,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/headshot_theodore_hill.jpeg?itok=vYQTrbud"}}},"media_ids":["666309"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/www\/opinion\/2023\/02\/811_345745.html","title":"Article"}],"groups":[{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173647","name":"_for_math_site_"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:comm@math.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESal Barone\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}