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the interesting thing is that i knew who noether was because of her theorem, but i got all the way through grad school without knowing she was a woman

• philwelch 15y ago
  Was it relevant? Maybe not.
  • zem 15y ago
    it was relevant in that it'd help break people of the unconscious assumption that all the great mathematicians they learn about are male.
    • philwelch 15y ago
      Fine, but worthy of an aside at best; mathematics lies before, above, and beyond society and politics and I rather like it that way.
• ig1 15y ago
  People generally seem to assume that mathematical and CS theorems are named after men rather than women. I'd be surprised if most programmers could tell you that Liskov (of Liskov's substitution principle) was female.