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April 1, 2012
Zera Selbstwerther-Eigenwerth, RIP
The Thinking Housewife › Zera Selbstwerther-Eigenwerth Passes Away
Ms. Eigenwerth, who suffered the indignity of never being promoted beyond full professor, was repeatedly fired from various mathematics departments during her early career until she switched subjects and became an expert in Women’s Studies, where she pioneered such areas of femino-numeric theory as Clitoriparabolistics, Gynosymptotics, Tribadometrics, and Sapphoconics. Ms. Eigenwerth’s 1989 study The Propriety of Improper Rational Expressions, eschewing numbers entirely and written in emotionally charged free verse using the first person, was hailed by Women’s Studies Quarterly, Women’s Studies International Forum, Hypatia, and other similar publications as representing a breakthrough in the formerly androcentric field of higher mathematics.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 1, 2012 2:02 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Her contribution to higher mathematics was incalculable.
Posted by: Gagdad Bob at April 1, 2012 2:17 PM
Go figure!
Posted by: Brian J. at April 1, 2012 2:31 PM
I think you're wrong by several degrees, Bob. Her mathematics was much lower, gynecologickly speaking. And just as incalculable.
Posted by: Jewel at April 1, 2012 4:12 PM
When told that "math is hard," she dismissed the view as phallocentric.
Posted by: Gagdad Bob at April 1, 2012 4:23 PM
She just needed to do a 180 degree turn and recalculate the circumvirance.
Posted by: Jewel at April 1, 2012 7:13 PM
Prolly, there'd be a lot more progress if we could all just grade our own papers. Who really needs flush toilets and bridges and stuff?
Posted by: james wilson at April 1, 2012 8:47 PM
I followed the link and read the whole thing, and I laughed so hard I got a headache! Truly brilliant!!! Inspired!
Thanks for linking to it.
(And Gagdad Bob comments should have warning labels so that before you read them you swallow whatever is in your mouth.)
Posted by: Minta Marie Morze at April 2, 2012 11:58 AM
I followed the link and read the whole thing, and I laughed so hard I got a headache! Truly brilliant!!! Inspired!
Thanks for linking to it.
(And Gagdad Bob comments should have warning labels so that before you read them you swallow whatever is in your mouth.)
Posted by: Minta Marie Morze at April 2, 2012 11:59 AM