The Menace of the 'Sixties
Sts.--'Has anyone ever heard of a great woman mathematician?' asks Mr. A. D. Mac Dougall. Sts.--'Has anyone ever heard of a great woman mathematician?' asks Mr. A. D. Mac Dougall.
Well, yes, if Mr. Mac Dougall thinks the German Jewish woman who did a very great proportion of the mathematical work on the atomic bomb was sufficiently good at arithmetic to match up to his standards. And Marie Curieāhalf-starved and frozen in a little 'garret of her own'? Not to mention the astonishing proportion of women (of all shapes and sizes) named by the Academy of Soviet Sciences for their work in physics, mathematics, etc., result- ing in the first sputnik and the achievements that followed.
1 do agree that some of the present-day stridency and whining of women novelists may have produced a certain emasculation among our males which in turn produces the sort of silly, bile-full letters which from time to time find their way into the SPECTATOR.
Tudor Street, London, EC4
OLGA FRANKLIN
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