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ktizo on March 27, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of

So you think that being a woman helped her fame, when the whole point of the report was how little she is known, even in many mathematics circles?

int3 on March 27, 2012 [–]

As other commenters have mentioned, she probably isn't as unknown as the article suggests. I'd have thought that her symmetry work is pretty well-known in the field of Physics, and credited under her name.

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