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Math Mutation 44 Friends in Mathematical Places

Nov 11, 20074 min
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Episode description

Story of a 19th-century Frenchwoman who pretended to be male for her career in mathematics, and how she revealed her identity to save Gauss. (Send feeback to erik@mathmutation.com)
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