[extropy-chat] Women in Mathematics throughout history
Eliezer Yudkowsky
sentience at pobox.com
Thu Jan 20 17:25:27 UTC 2005
John K Clark wrote:
> "Amara Graps" <amara at amara.com>
>
>> if you have not heard of Ingrid Daubechies, then shame on you
>
> I have heard of Ingrid Daubechies, she is a remarkable woman and I thank
> her for JPEG-2000, but I am also sure she would be incredulous if you
> tried to compare her to Newton or Archimedes.
Unfair, you have to compare her to a great math genius post-1960 when the
grounds even *began* to become equal. Andrew J. Wiles? I don't think he
compares to Newton either, at least in terms of accomplishment (who knows
about g-factor).
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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