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[Larry Summers' head explodes.]
Her Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani
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A female present at the top level of math achievement is not inconsistent with the 3 reasons Summers gave for the (average) lack of females there. It will still be overwhelmingly male at the top and the higher male variance in math ability is not going to magically go away.
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A female present at the top level of math achievement is not inconsistent with the 3 reasons Summers gave for the (average) lack of females there. It will still be overwhelmingly male at the top and the higher male variance in math ability is not going to magically go away.
Might not "magically" go away but if you actually look at the data it vanishes.
[Larry Summers' head explodes.]
http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=145 (read past the first three paragraphs; why is the sex variability inverted for Asians? perhaps Nature doesn't so completely dominate Nurture after all...)
Great to see that someone who grew up in a country which many in the west believe is backward and opposed to women's education and scientific progress in general win such an award.
Anyway, academia is generally one of the few "liberal" institutions in Islamic countries. The issue is usually of female graduates finding work outside academia (eg Saudi Arabia graduated its first batch of female law students in 2008 and still hasn't let them practice law).
Wikipedia: "... this led her to obtain a new proof for the celebrated conjecture of Edward Witten on the intersection numbers of tautology classes on moduli space as well as an asymptotic formula for the length of simple closed geodesics on a compact hyperbolic surface."
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Might not "magically" go away but if you actually look at the data it vanishes.
Im really, honestly, interested in what data you're talking about. Please paste a link.