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Volume 1, Number 1 | Rejecta Mathematica
A place to publish rejected papers in math; first issue
More Evidence That Girls Kick Ass at Math, Just Like Boys | 80beats | Discover Magazine
Even if girls and boys perform equally well in math on average, is it true that more math geniuses are male? That was the idea expressed by then-Harvard president Larry Summers in 2005 when he raised an uproar by talking about males’ “intrinsic aptitude” for math. The researchers looked for evidence of such an imbalance, but found that in countries with the greatest gender equality, as many girls as boys scored above the 99th percentile–and in a few countries, there were more girls in that elite rank than boys.
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Even if girls and boys perform equally well in math on average, is it true that more math geniuses are male? That was the idea expressed by then-Harvard president Larry Summers in 2005 when he raised an uproar by talking about males’ “intrinsic aptitude” for math. The researchers looked for evidence of such an imbalance, but found that in countries with the greatest gender equality, as many girls as boys scored above the 99th percentile–and in a few countries, there were more girls in that elite rank than boys. The “scarcity of top-scoring females in many, but not all countries .. . must be largely due to changeable sociocultural factors,” the scientists write, “not immutable, innate biological differences between the sexes.” If the differences were innate, they should show up in every culture
Essential Math for Games Programmers
Welcome to the website for the one-day tutorial Essential Math for Games Programmers, which is presented every year at the Game Developer's Conference. Within you will find information about the tutorial, free tutorial materials, and some updates for the companion book.
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