Re: Re: Article on women and mathematics

2005-04-05 Thread Erich Schubert
Hi, Sorry, I'm not subscribed. Just stumbled over this in the archives. So no proper threading, sorry. Some weeks ago, when I arrived here in Berkeley I also had the impression that there were very few women... http://groups.sims.berkeley.edu/CDTM/05spring/?p=4 This is somewhat regional IMHO: I h

Re: Re: Article on women and mathematics

2005-04-06 Thread Erich Schubert
Hi Enrico, > has a section "Prosecution for homosexuality and Turing's death", which > is quite a sad and upsetting story. Yep, but typical for mathematicians: many bright mathematicians die early... its like, if you are 30, you cannot expect to make any great discoveries any more, but at least y

Re: Re: Re: Article on women and mathematics

2005-04-07 Thread Erich Schubert
Hi, As I understood some biography I read about Ada Byron (sorry, no URL), she suggested to Babbage the need for a formal description of the steps needed for calculation - even if she didn't write the first computer program herself, she probably still invented programming... :-) Babbage himself app