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From: jamcmullan@watmath.UUCP (Judy McMullan)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: people disliking formal math proofs
Message-ID: <7791@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-May-84 14:20:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 14:20:00 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 18-May-84 00:18:08 EDT
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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   >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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