> She may be cool, but she didn't "reshape Mathematics".
You missed the pun.
Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics
by pksdjfikkkkdsff on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:45PM
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No I get it, her formula is about ideal shapes (of bridges).
It is still misleading. They could have written "who reshaped bridges".
I suppose Grothendieck reshaped Mathematics - he invented a new way of looking at things, that made it possible to prove a host of new things.
In a sense perhaps every mathematical result reshapes mathematics. But they used it here to inflate her importance, to make it seem outrageous that she was supposedly forgotten. As if many Mathematicians are being remembered in general.
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Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics
by pksdjfikkkkdsff on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:45PM
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That's not the point. The point is that it is a lie to claim she was forgotten because she was a woman.
And as for missed geniuses, there are many missed male geniuses, too, many famously so (even Einstein didn't get a position as a professor at first). They suggest only women are overlooked, which is untrue.
There are also examples of female mathematicians even further back being fostered by famous mathematicians.