Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦Dec 17, 2022
OK, here’s an idea I want to try. Without looking it up on the Internet anywhere, just off the top of your head, do you know who Emmy Noether is? You can look her up after answering, but don’t post the answer till the poll is over! Please boost for more numbers. #women
Never heard of her
67.2%
Heard the name but not sure who she is
10.3%
I know who she is
22.5%
Poll ended at .
Show threadLevel 98 🇺🇦Dec 17, 2022
@dgoldsmith I was expecting a far higher percentage to have heard of her. Looks like we all need to post about her lots!
Show threadRobJLowDec 17, 2022
@level98 @dgoldsmith Physicists (ok, theoretical/mathematical ones) and algebraists will know about her, but I suspect that if you get outside those communities it's very few people. (Though I think she deserves to be known as well as, say, Marie Curie.)
Show threadpedestrian cyclistDec 17, 2022
@RobJLow @level98 @dgoldsmith
But outside those communities, how many people would actually say they know about Boltzmann, Poincaré or Kolmogorov (for example)?
Feels really hard to have a reference here...
Show threadLillyLyle/Count Melancholia
@odoruhako I studied English Literature and even I know those first two.
Dec 20, 2022 at 7:32pmWeb