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The thing I find fascinating about both this article and now your comment is that regardless of who's game it is, it seems to be taken as fact that it's a MANS
by skc 13y ago
The thing I find fascinating about both this article and now your comment is that regardless of who's game it is, it seems to be taken as fact that it's a MANS game. You said "you get a wife"...I suppose history isn't littered with too many breakthrough female mathematicians.
- j2kun 13y agoNot many, but a few. Gender aside, nobody would think of Emmy Noether as anything less than one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived.
- claudius 13y agoUnless, of course, you consider her a physicist and those as less than mathematicians…
- magicalist 13y agoI'll happily look down on applied mathematics, but classifying Emmy Noether as only a physicist would be ridiculous, as a large part of her life's work was indeed pure mathematics. I can't imagine the abuse of history needed to assert otherwise. And remember, even Hardy, most famous of the Purists, often slummed it with (hold your nose) physicists and on a few occasions even with (the horror) biologists.
- acangiano 13y agoI believe the article followed Hardy's quote, and I followed the article lead. I realized after posting that it might be seen as male oriented but I believe the same is true for female mathematicians. There are quite a few female mathematicians who made important contributions. My wife wrote a top 10 of sort on my blog a few years ago: http://math-blog.com/2008/09/28/10-remarkable-female-mathematicians/ http://math-blog.com/2008/09/28/10-remarkable-female-mathema...
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