HARVARD math wizard excels at woman's rugby

Colleges & Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>Pretty impressive young woman.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.planet-rugby.com/Teams/USA/story_51264.shtml%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.planet-rugby.com/Teams/USA/story_51264.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I'd hit it.;)</p>

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<p>I thought the line about being the only blonde woman at math meets was funny--I have one blonde girl on the team I coach, but indeed she is conspicuous even here in Minnesota.</p>

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<p>Hm... I don't see her name mentioned on any of the putnam competitions.</p>

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<p>Where does it say she excelled? It just says she played it...</p>

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<p>She's a key player (scrum half) on one of the country's best teams, an Ivy All-Star and outgoing President of Radcliffe Rugby.</p>

<p><a href="http://hcs.harvard.edu/%7Eradrugby/RRFC%20Newsletter%2005-06.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://hcs.harvard.edu/~radrugby/RRFC%20Newsletter%2005-06.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Scoring high enough on the Putnam to have individual recognition nationally puts one in good company </p>

<p><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/c5ee9a785a4d925e/3ab9ffe110b400c6%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/c5ee9a785a4d925e/3ab9ffe110b400c6&lt;/a> </p>

<p>but no serious mathematician, even a mathematician who has won the Putnam competition, asserts that the set {high individual scorers on the Putnam exam} has a one-to-one correspondence with the set {people who can properly be called a "math wiz"}. To me, her attendance in Harvard's Math 55 class and successful completion of higher-level classes, while still having time to be active in sports, speaks for itself. </p>

<p>Congratuations to this Harvard alumna. I hope she enjoys the math and the rugby at Cambridge University--both are world-class there.</p>

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<p>Yet some out-of-the-classroom achievement in mathematics is implied when you call somebody a math wiz. Simply taking math classes makes you no more than.... a math major.</p>

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<p>Sounds like Cambridge finds her a "wiz" enough to qualify for an MA degree program in mathematics, as she follows a career path intending to become a math professor.</p>

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<p>Thats soo sexy... I wonder if Princeton even has a chick rugby team ...</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.princeton.edu/%7Epuwrfc/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.princeton.edu/~puwrfc/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>