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Re:Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic...
by mmdoda on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:27PM
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The fact that she's a woman doesn't make this interesting. (Woman winning women's cycling wouldn't be much news.) The reason this is interesting is because she's a Mathematician and an amateur.
Re:Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic...
by xondono on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:49PM
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Let’s ignore talking about mathematicians who participate in the olympics and focus on their genitalia, because that’s clearly what’s important here.
Re:Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic...
by hervature on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:31PM
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It seems like a pertinent interesting side fact about mathematicians at the Olympics. The list is obviously pretty small.
Re:Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic...
by adrian_b on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:53PM
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Any 2 humans who are simultaneously good mathematicians and good athletes have much more in common than most pairs of women or most pairs of men have just because they have the same sex.
Re:Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic...
by DoreenMichele on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:10AM
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There's room for talking about both. It's not somehow a put down of the woman to kind of compare her to Turing.
Re:Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic...
by C19is20 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:08AM
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As an ardent women's cycling fan, i found it a fascinating fact.
Re:Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic...
by srean on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:22PM
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No offense intended, it seems my comment has upset you or someone else who has been downvoting unrelated comments.
Turing is a person of interest here, for obvious reasons, so did not think it would be out of place. Gender identity was the last thing on my mind.
There are some similarities, a mathematician, amateur sportsman in an Olympics, don't you think ? Turing's running mates were quite unaware of his technical and academic contributions, partly due to the secrecy of his wartime contributions.
If women athletes with academic accomplishments interest you, you may checkout Corinna Cortes. She is VP at Google Research, known for her foundational work in machine learning, support vector machines in particular. She is Danish, if that matters to you.