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- From: levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine)
- Subject: Re: Bozos Synonymous
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:15:23 GMT
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- cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty) writes:
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- >In a previous article, levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu (Lenore Levine) says:
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- >>
- >>You think that "crop circles" character is something. Wait till
- >>you read "Sexual Personae" by Camille Paglia! Lots of complete
- >>nonsense about how mathematics is done, and mathematicians
- >>think!
- >>
- >>I defy this lady to explain why the derivative of x^2 is 2x. Meanwhile
- >>she's making zillions, and I'm scrambling for pennies in graduate
- >>school.
- >>
- >>
- > I'm sure this is the first time anyone has complained about
- >Paglia's views on math. What were they? I read the book but the math
- >must have escaped me in the rush. (You probably are right that she
- >couldn't explain deriviatives of polynomials.)
-
- >Colin
-
- She seems to be saying:
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- 1. That mathematics represents a "masculine" way of thinking.
-
- 2. That there never will be, or ought to be, any more
- women doing research mathematics than there have been
- historically. (Almost none.)
-
- I think you'd have to look long and hard to find a research
- mathematician who would agree with these two sentences...
-
- Lenore Levine
- levine@symcom.math.uiuc.edu
-
- P.S. Speaking of bozos, hasn't Timothy Leary been talking an awful
- lot about computers? I defy him to write a BASIC program listing
- the primes from 1 to 100.
-
- But wouldn't you love to listen to a Timothy/Camille debate? (Maybe
- on "The Future of Technology in the 21st Century...")
-