{"id":4889,"date":"2024-05-29T08:41:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T15:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2024-06-05T11:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T18:13:33","slug":"peter-rosenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2024\/05\/29\/peter-rosenthal\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Rosenthal\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Peter Rosenthal had a huge impact on my life. He taught mathematics not by showing us proofs, but by leading us through the process of discovering them for ourselves &#8211; and by doing that he led me to a rediscovered confidence in my own ability. His principled political stands were always focused on defending the abused, and often involved painful issues; but despite the seriousness of his work, the twinkle in his eye and wicked smile remind us always that life, even in struggle, can be fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/steelesmemorialchapel.com\/condolence\/peter-rosenthal\/#comment-231119\">Peter Rosenthal &#8211; Steeles Memorial Chapel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>See also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/canada\/article-u-of-t-math-professor-peter-rosenthal-became-a-lawyer-so-he-could-take\/\">This G&amp;M Obituary<\/a> and\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/torontolife.com\/city\/peter-rosenthal-the-agitator\/\">This earlier profile in Toronto Life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Rosenthal had a huge impact on my life. He taught mathematics not by showing us proofs, but by leading us through the process of discovering them for ourselves &#8211; and by doing that he led me to a rediscovered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2024\/05\/29\/peter-rosenthal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4907,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4889\/revisions\/4907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}