Fishwives

[Mark A Mandel]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, James A. Landau wrote:

#In the "Historia Matematica" mailing list, someone quoted a famous 19th
#century mathematician.  I responded by saying that if the mathematician had
#really said that, then he was being out of character by acting "like a
#fishwife".

        [...]

#Still the question remains: was I correct to refer to a male by a female
#stereotype?

I have no problem with it.

-- Mark A. Mandel