And yet we might still get an occasional Emmy Noether (for example), if we don't completely lock her out of the clubhouse. Mathematics is a human endeavor, not some platonic realm of pure reason practiced by disembodied beings of pure logic. Treating people fairly and respecting their real accomplishments when they don't look like the in…
And yet we might still get an occasional Emmy Noether (for example), if we don't completely lock her out of the clubhouse. Mathematics is a human endeavor, not some platonic realm of pure reason practiced by disembodied beings of pure logic. Treating people fairly and respecting their real accomplishments when they don't look like the in-group is hard enough without this pernicious affirmative activism putting its thumbs on the scales in everybody's eyes. These people genuinely have no idea the damage they're doing.
And yet we might still get an occasional Emmy Noether (for example), if we don't completely lock her out of the clubhouse. Mathematics is a human endeavor, not some platonic realm of pure reason practiced by disembodied beings of pure logic. Treating people fairly and respecting their real accomplishments when they don't look like the in-group is hard enough without this pernicious affirmative activism putting its thumbs on the scales in everybody's eyes. These people genuinely have no idea the damage they're doing.