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She may be cool, but she didn't "reshape Mathematics". Wish such articles would come without so much hyperbole. And as for missed geniuses, there are many miss
by pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y ago
She may be cool, but she didn't "reshape Mathematics". Wish such articles would come without so much hyperbole.
And as for missed geniuses, there are many missed male geniuses, too, many famously so (even Einstein didn't get a position as a professor at first). They suggest only women are overlooked, which is untrue.
There are also examples of female mathematicians even further back being fostered by famous mathematicians.
- minikites 7y ago>And as for missed geniuses, there are many missed male geniuses Not everything needs to be about men.
- pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y agoThat's not the point. The point is that it is a lie to claim she was forgotten because she was a woman.
- klyrs 7y ago> She may be cool, but she didn't "reshape Mathematics". You missed the pun.
- pksdjfikkkkdsff 7y agoNo I get it, her formula is about ideal shapes (of bridges). It is still misleading. They could have written "who reshaped bridges". I suppose Grothendieck reshaped Mathematics - he invented a new way of looking at things, that made it possible to prove a host of new things. In a sense perhaps every mathematical result reshapes mathematics. But they used it here to inflate her importance, to make it seem outrageous that she was supposedly forgotten. As if many Mathematicians are being remembered in general.