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Everything in this article is about youth, not being male, so I don't get why they chose to put "Man" in the title. Are there not any young women born as genius

Everything in this article is about youth, not being male, so I don't get why they chose to put "Man" in the title. Are there not any young women born as genius?

moistgorilla 13y ago
He is referencing a quote by G.H. Harding "No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game." Try reading the article before getting insulted.
- leobelle 13y ago
  I didn't know that, thanks.
breckinloggins 13y ago
The title is in reference to a famous mathematical assertion and is a direct allusion to a G. H. Hardy quote from 1940.
lutusp 13y ago
> Are there not any young women born as genius? Mathematics and mathematical physics have many accounts of brilliant female mathematicians. The first computer programmer was a woman (Ada Lovelace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace), at a time when programming was almost purely mathematical. In spite of serious obstacles throughout history, examples abound. My favorite contemporary example: https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/randall https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/randall Quote: "Professor Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University. Her research connects theoretical insights to puzzles in our current understanding of the properties and interactions of matter. She has developed and studied a wide variety of models to address these questions, the most prominent involving extra dimensions of space."
- nickthemagicman 13y ago
  Only 5% of nobel prizes have gone to women, and this includes literature and peace prizes. I'm sure if you narrow it to pure STEM it's much lower. Men have invented every major technological advance in history. If you look outside your window all the roads, all the buildings, cars, aeroplanes, cell phones, etc. All men. My theory is not that women are dumber, it's that the fight for survival is not there for women. They can just have a man pay their bills in exchange for sex. Actually by seizing that advantage it makes women seem actually smarter..... and they live longer too.
  - yetanotherphd 13y ago
    Wild speculation that {women|older people|Black people} are inherently less inclined/capable in a field, is baseless discrimination. Wild speculation that {men|younger people|White people} are inherently less inclined/capable in a field, is stimulating discussion. Just a heads up for when the downvotes come.
    - pikachu_is_cool 13y ago
      It's funny how so many of these HNers are so quick to jump the gun and join the "women are oppressed" circlejerk, and when someone disagrees, they call THEM sexist. Do you all not remember high school? Don't you remember wondering why all the girls go for the football jocks and musicians? Don't fool yourself; engineers are boring. Engineering is isolating. That's why there are barely any female engineers. You don't see people wondering why there aren't as many male kindergarten teachers.
      - nickthemagicman 13y ago
        Thank you! I'm literally trying to base my theories on facts, not sexism or anything. In modern times women OUTNUMBER men in college yet the ration of women to men in STEM is abysmally low. This isn't sexism this is factual. I'm trying to find an explanation besides: 'Science is filled with sexist pigs so that's why women avoid it.' I'm just finding it harder to agree with the 'women are victims' stance the more I critically think about the situation.

Everything in this article is about youth, not being male, so I don't get why they chose to put "Man" in the title. Are there not any young women born as genius?

moistgorilla 13y ago

He is referencing a quote by G.H. Harding "No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game." Try reading the article before getting insulted.

leobelle 13y ago
I didn't know that, thanks.

breckinloggins 13y ago

The title is in reference to a famous mathematical assertion and is a direct allusion to a G. H. Hardy quote from 1940.

lutusp 13y ago

> Are there not any young women born as genius? Mathematics and mathematical physics have many accounts of brilliant female mathematicians. The first computer programmer was a woman (Ada Lovelace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace), at a time when programming was almost purely mathematical. In spite of serious obstacles throughout history, examples abound. My favorite contemporary example: https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/randall https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/randall Quote: "Professor Lisa Randall studies theoretical particle physics and cosmology at Harvard University. Her research connects theoretical insights to puzzles in our current understanding of the properties and interactions of matter. She has developed and studied a wide variety of models to address these questions, the most prominent involving extra dimensions of space."

nickthemagicman 13y ago
Only 5% of nobel prizes have gone to women, and this includes literature and peace prizes. I'm sure if you narrow it to pure STEM it's much lower. Men have invented every major technological advance in history. If you look outside your window all the roads, all the buildings, cars, aeroplanes, cell phones, etc. All men. My theory is not that women are dumber, it's that the fight for survival is not there for women. They can just have a man pay their bills in exchange for sex. Actually by seizing that advantage it makes women seem actually smarter..... and they live longer too.
- yetanotherphd 13y ago
  Wild speculation that {women|older people|Black people} are inherently less inclined/capable in a field, is baseless discrimination. Wild speculation that {men|younger people|White people} are inherently less inclined/capable in a field, is stimulating discussion. Just a heads up for when the downvotes come.
  - pikachu_is_cool 13y ago
    It's funny how so many of these HNers are so quick to jump the gun and join the "women are oppressed" circlejerk, and when someone disagrees, they call THEM sexist. Do you all not remember high school? Don't you remember wondering why all the girls go for the football jocks and musicians? Don't fool yourself; engineers are boring. Engineering is isolating. That's why there are barely any female engineers. You don't see people wondering why there aren't as many male kindergarten teachers.
    - nickthemagicman 13y ago
      Thank you! I'm literally trying to base my theories on facts, not sexism or anything. In modern times women OUTNUMBER men in college yet the ration of women to men in STEM is abysmally low. This isn't sexism this is factual. I'm trying to find an explanation besides: 'Science is filled with sexist pigs so that's why women avoid it.' I'm just finding it harder to agree with the 'women are victims' stance the more I critically think about the situation.