For the first time, mathematics' most prestigious prize has been awarded to a woman, Karen Uhlenbeck

both hard for the layman to understand

And general relativity is easy for the layman to understand?

more abstract in its importance

Noether's theorem isn't particularly abstract, it's a very direct mathematical statement about action, symmetry and conservation laws. It's introduced quite early in studies of quantum physics.

they've simply made vastly fewer contributions.

I wonder why that could be, given that women were not schooled as men were, treated as chattel and denied equal civil rights until the 20th century.

I hope at some point in your degree you pick up a thing or two about critical thinking, then you might be equipped to recognise what fallacious feminist garbage that argument is.

Ah, I see you have an agenda.

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