Short Wave

A Mathematician's Manifesto For Rethinking Gender

Sep 14, 2020 · 15 min · 14.5 MB
0:00-15:10

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In her new book, x+y, mathematician Eugenia Cheng uses her specialty, category theory, to challenge how we think about gender and the traits associated with it. Instead, she calls for a new dimension of thinking, characterizing behavior in a way completely removed from considerations of gender.

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