{"id":45689,"date":"2017-07-12T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=45689"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:15","slug":"armstrong-picketts-charge-what-modern-mathematics-teaches-us-about-civil-war-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2017\/07\/armstrong-picketts-charge-what-modern-mathematics-teaches-us-about-civil-war-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Pickett\u2019s Charge \u2014 What modern mathematics teaches us about Civil War battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong,\u00a0an associate professor of operations research in the Goodman School of Business, writes about the use of\u00a0modern mathematics to reflect on the Battle of Gettysburg in a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/picketts-charge-what-modern-mathematics-teaches-us-about-civil-war-battle-78982?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2030%202017&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2030%202017+CID_c1cd93c7a6a8bd4247ab41cb35816c74&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Picketts%20Charge%20What%20modern%20mathematics%20teaches%20us%20about%20Civil%20War%20battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">piece recently published in The Conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Armstrong\u00a0writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the American Civil War, and Gen. George Pickett\u2019s infantry charge on July 3, 1863, was the battle\u2019s climax. Had the Confederate Army won, it could have continued its invasion of Union territory. Instead, the charge was repelled with heavy losses. This forced the Confederates to retreat south and end their summer campaign.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pickett\u2019s Charge consequently became known as the Confederate \u201chigh water mark.\u201d Countless books and movies tell its story. Tourists visit the battlefield, re-enactors refight the battle and Civil War roundtable groups discuss it. It still reverberates in ongoing American controversies over leaders statues, Confederate flags and civil rights.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/picketts-charge-what-modern-mathematics-teaches-us-about-civil-war-battle-78982?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2030%202017&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20June%2030%202017+CID_c1cd93c7a6a8bd4247ab41cb35816c74&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&amp;utm_term=Picketts%20Charge%20What%20modern%20mathematics%20teaches%20us%20about%20Civil%20War%20battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, an associate professor of operations research in the Goodman School of Business, writes about the use of modern mathematics to reflect on the Battle of Gettysburg in a piece recently published in The Conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6],"tags":[5192,594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95281,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45689\/revisions\/95281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}