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Pythagoras' trousers : God, physics, and the gender wars
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Pythagoras' trousers : God, physics, and the gender wars

by 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.

Accession 30376 ISBN 081292200X Publisher Times Books
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