On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:31:03 -0500 David Van Horn <dvanh...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> On 2/18/12 9:23 PM, J. Ian Johnson wrote: > > More important than the word choice, the representative character of the > > book is male. Potential female readers will not see this book as for them > > because they don't identify with the icon. There should be a male/female > > team or an ambiguous space slug. > > The book features at least one team comprised of both males and females: > the authors. But I'll be sure to pass along what you guys think. Have you read Knuth's "Surreal numbers" http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~uno/sn.html ? It does not have fencing, pirates or giants, but it does have math, mystery and (hopefully) true love :-) s. -- "This is why Science and Mathematics are still much fun: You discover things that seem impossible to be true and then get to figure out why it's impossible for them not to be." -- Vi Hart: Spirals, Fibonacci, and Being a Plant, Part 3 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
