I v. tentatively think that there's no huge talent gap, but obsessive work on abstraction is much more male.
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you need both the ability (rare, roughly equal) and the delusion that what you're doing is worth doing (rare, male)
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Buried in that article is, I think, an important point: the existing K12 curriculum is crap. 1/
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Especially at attracting students. Everyone I know who likes math does in spite of their early education 2/
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THIS THIS THIS. God, my math teachers worked so hard to make me hate it.
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One summer I was doing drudge work with a lot of empty time so I picked up Birkhoff and Mac Lane.
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But that was the summer between 3rd and 4th years of college. So much time wasted.
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.