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Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by wolfi1 on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:44AM (#21418105)
if we are talking about female mathematicians don't forget Emmy Noether: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether
Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by pixelpoet on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:23AM (#21418451)
She's one of the few true aliens I regard as up there with von Neumann and Einstein, who have some kind of ridiculous direct line of communication with the fabric of reality.
Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by growlist on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:54AM (#21418772)
You're doing a bit of a disservice to Newton and Maxwell there, surely. And lots of Einstein's work was derivative of others.
Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by fmajid on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:50AM (#21419417)
Special Relativity was completely ripped off from Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz (but then they were not German and the physics establishment was dominated by Germans at the time).

Einstein's 1921 Nobel prize pointedly ignores Relativity and was awarded for his work on the photoelectric effect, a backhanded slap if there were none.

Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by Koshkin on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:57AM (#21418186)
We are talking about a migrant Jewish female mathematician who was discriminated against trying to start a career in the USA in mid-1940s.
Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by oefrha on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:07AM (#21418279)
Who did not reshape mathematics, unlike Emmy Noether.
Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by fmajid on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:53AM (#21419456)
Yes. When I read the headline, I thought it was going to be about Noether. Even then, I'd argue she reshaped physics, not mathematics itself, unlike, say, Galois or Gödel.
Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by wolfi1 on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:05AM (#21418264)
Emmy Noether had a comparable background and had her problems with academia, too
Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by Gondolin on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:58PM (#21423070)
Yes, Emmy Noether was a pure genius (one of the greatest mathematician of all time), and was never named full professor (even though she had Hilbert support).