Women in Mathematics

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Sigh...actually, it never stops, just hopefully becomes less important. I'm around hundreds of brainy women (being in Research Triangle Park is like brains Central.... They can feel as intimidated as anyone else. Nothing specific about it, but it tickles me at work when I'm the dumbest person in the room, how much they appreciate just being treated as normal people.

All I know about higher math is that there's this program called Mathematica, which does equations with all the necessary symbols. Then again, there's fonts that do that too, although they can't solve anything...

The only thing past calculus I've heard of is topology. There's a free program for this called Topmod, if you want to play around with shapes and such. Just a thought...

I seem to know quite a few women in mathematics. My last girlfriend is starting her doctorate in particle physics next year, and a lot of my lab partners have been female as well. I will note that a lot of them seem to actually be better than their male counterparts too. There were quite a few instances where I went to my ex for get some info on a particular problem (though she was a year younger and a year ahead of me in classes, so she was familiar with the problems)

As for them being intimidating or whatnot, I actually choose girls who are like that. There is nothing like staying up all night in bed talking about STDR (Scanning, Transmission, Destruction, Replication) teleportation and its feasibility with someone you're intimate with. Hahaha, or picking out discontinuity errors in time travel movies.