Posted on 07/21/2013 2:39:23 PM PDT by neverdem
These definitions were unknown to Euclid, as trigonometry was a much later development.
However I did learn recently that the "law of cosines" of plane trigonometry is to be found in essence in Euclid Book II Prop. 12, so I think we can give the cartoon a pass.
There are a lot of women in geology, earth sciences and planetology. I would think that a lot are also engineers on one tract or another. Chemists I bet, too.
Though academic physics tends even more toward specialization, which can really pigeon-hole a scientist; reading only your colleague’s papers, attending conferences only within your field, etc. Add that physicists - and mathematicians - tend to live in that mathematical world. Pretty abstract. Though there are those women who the field attracts i.e., Lisa Randall at Harvard. Tomboys. Gggrrrrrr....
Male or female, hard sciences are usually not the choice of your average college student. Most want to do as little as possible and party for four or five years on their other people’s money.
That one can do the work required by hard sciences, I commend those people. They are learning something of value. The same cannot be said of any degree with “studies” as part of its title or much of the liberal arts.
Math, science, chemistry, geology — sciences — require a lot of thought, study, and demonstration you have mastered your subject. In science 2+2=4 and no other answer is acceptable; neither is any other answer considered “learning in progress”.
Hogwash. I am a woman and I like physics. In fact, I majored in physics as an undergrad.
Most (darn near all) of the guys involved in physics don't buy in to that garbage ... and most (darn near all) of them are too interested in actual women to waste their time with it.
In your four (?) years as an undergrad, you got to observe 7 graduating classes: Yours, the three ahead of you, and the 3 behind you. Questions:
1) What was the average size of a graduating class in your department?
2) How many women students were there?
In my case, the average graduating class size was nine, and during my time there were a total of 3 women: two in my class and 1 two years behind me. Women in the "hard" studies seemed to prefer engineering disciplines to science disciplines.
My post was a joke to pick on women.
Don’t get so emotional about it. :)
This thread suggests that someone thinks ‘bias’ is ‘important’. Total BS. Bias is what we see on the part of colleges that tend to hire only leftist elitist stereotyped faculty members. Bias is a term that Leftists use for anything that does not suit them. Leftists are biased in so many ways that a thread addressing that bias would become biased. :)
You clearly have not watched Big Bang Theory, LOL
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