[net.women] people disliking formal math proofs

jamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan) (05/17/84)

   >I know some excellent female
   >mathematicians, but far more women who are brilliant otherwise, but
   >reluctant to even consider a formal proof.  I am not brash enough to
   >claim to understand the basis of this phenomenon completely.

You have got to be kidding!! Far more PEOPLE -- of either sex -- are going
to be reluctant to delve into a "formal proof".

   --from the sssstickkky keyboard of JAM
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