I found out that Noether was a woman only last Monday, when this comic came out!!!! My shame, of course, but I blame my (male) teachers for not having pointed this out to us….
Still, what’s the saddest thing: our default assumption that theorems are made by men or having to feel the obligation of explicitly specifying that she was a woman against that assumption (“Cool theorem, uh? And you know what? She was a WOMAN!”, “no kidding!”)????
An xkcd webcomic about Marie Curie a wee on the heavy side of making a point…
May 16, 2011 at 11:25 am
I found out that Noether was a woman only last Monday, when this comic came out!!!! My shame, of course, but I blame my (male) teachers for not having pointed this out to us….
Still, what’s the saddest thing: our default assumption that theorems are made by men or having to feel the obligation of explicitly specifying that she was a woman against that assumption (“Cool theorem, uh? And you know what? She was a WOMAN!”, “no kidding!”)????