[Settfa] Tuesday 25/04, Karol Duda

[Karen Strung]

Fair enough. Shame this term was coined in 2010. Guess we know what our colleagues think of us. 




> On 24. 4. 2023, at 13:12, Mirna Dzamonja <logiqueconsult at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Karen and others,
> 
> I appreciate your view Karen, but I am absolutely opposed to it. (I am also a woman). Changing history is not a good idea. It only appears the bad doers looking good. If we take the word harem out, how will anybody ever know what certain mathematicians of that time thought of women ? And if we do not know these things, how shall we justify the absence of women in mathematics of the time ? We are just playing into somebody’s else field.
> 
> A theorem cannot change the name, that is the rule. For better or for worse. The fact that Mr Hall will be remembered by the Harem theorem and the Marriage Lemma, where boys choose girls, serves only his own memory. :-) We should not do him the favour of changing it.
> 
> 
>   Best wishes ! Mirna

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