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also: has there ever been a female mathmatician. and if so who?

is there anything that women are that is supieror to men?

2007-04-17 10:11:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Biology

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Medicaleducationonline.org says:

(1) Total brain size: In adults, the average brain weight in men is about 11-12% MORE than the average brain weight in women. Men's heads are also about 2% bigger than women's. . This is due to the larger physical stature of men. Male’s larger muscle mass, and larger body size require more neurons to control them. This does not suggest that due to the larger brain, males are smarter than females.
(2) Cell number: men have 4% more brain cells than women , and about 100 grams more of brain tissue. this may explain why women are more prone to dementia (such as Alzheimer's disease) than men, because although both may lose the same number of neurons due to the disease, "in males, the functional reserve may be greater as a larger number of nerve cells are present, which could prevent some of the functional losses."

Notice that the number of brain cells relates to the size of men's bodies and the need for more brain cells to direct their bodies. That doesn't mean they have more brain cells directed toward mathematical or analytical thinking.

Here's a list of women in mathematics (in chronological order). The list is far to long to include in this post. See it for yourself. http://www.agnesscott.edu/Lriddle/women/chronol.htm

Instead of superior or inferior, we need to focus on individuals. It's not a war to be won. We're all people.

And, yes, I am a female science teacher.

2007-04-17 10:19:48 · answer #1 · answered by ecolink 7 · 1 0

I'm positive that the number of brain cells a person has is NOT determined by gender. As per the previous answerer, I know that there are plenty of female mathematicians, just not any whose names have become household words. Additionally, whether or not females are mathematicians would have nothing to do with the number of brain cells a person might have, nor would it show superiority in anything except for math.

It is a documented fact that women are superior over men at multitasking. Go ahead...I challenge you...Spend just one day trying to juggle the lives of everyone in your family, and you, too, will see how superior women are at this particular task.

The truth of the matter is that each individual person has their own set of skills and talents. Stop judging based on gender, and let us all be the human being we're born to be.

2007-04-17 10:23:58 · answer #2 · answered by abfabmom1 7 · 0 0

I am not sure about the brain cell portion of your question, and I am sure there have been women mathematicians, just never acknoledged. As for something that women are superior to men, Yes; Giving life. :)

2007-04-17 10:16:48 · answer #3 · answered by Nena 3 · 0 0

Please placed up your factors. thank you! i'm unlikely to envision up on those factors, so assuming that they are actual i will supply you a proof. The strategies is composed of the two gray and white matter, that have thoroughly distinctive applications. gray matter includes the surely neurons of the strategies, aka the strategies cells. White matter is the myelin sheath (a protein masking) of the axon of the neuron, which gives you insulation and enables messages to return and forth speedier. women human beings have extra of the white matter, this is why we are in many situations extra advantageous with communique and high quality motor skills (a suitable occasion is handwriting). adult adult males, even though, could have extra gray matter, this is why adult adult males are in many situations extra analytical (an occasion is how extra adult adult males are in math and engineering fields). it incredibly is ordinary, women human beings and adult adult males have distinctive strengths regularly, yet in my view all our brains are distinctive and subsequently there'll continually be exceptions to the guideline.

2016-10-22 10:55:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Yes, men tend to have more brain cells. Mens' brains are consistantly bigger. However some women are abnormal and have even bigger brains, then most men. But not many.

2007-04-17 10:21:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

Pardon?

2007-04-17 10:29:32 · answer #6 · answered by Andy 3 · 0 1

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