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Pythagoras' trousers : God, physics, and the gender wars / Margaret Wertheim

This cultural history explores the relationship between physics and religious institutions from ancient Greece to the present. It analyses how the field's theological origins have contributed to the persistent gender imbalance within the mathematical sciences.

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