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Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics by klyrs on Friday November 01, 2019 @12:53PM (#21420954)
> 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 (#21422941)
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.