Are You a Mathematical Mind?

I'd like to ask you bit about this whole issue of gender. There are many people getting into the mathematical perspective, the mathematical mind. Do i have a mathematical mentality, or do i not? Who might be tempted to argue, that, oh, women can't do mathematics. They don't have what it takes. And one of them is somewhat confusing to me. So the reasonable point is that you have shown this empirically yourself to be completely unfounded. You have supervised many female graduate students, and they have all done very well. But the most surprising thing is they all seem to be portuguese. Somehoo, they tat combo. They're either from portugal

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