>>11591625>>11591733>It was accepted because she called the traditional way of writing a paper the white man's approachno it was accepted because she married a dude at Princeton at the time and got in via obvious nepotism. I don't like to doubt the abilities of mathematicians with their PhD typically since more often than not, people here overreact to
>muh wahmen in stem>muh nonwhite in stembut in Piper's case she literally had an unrelated undergrad and *no* connection or self study into math - most of her PhD, to her own admission, was her doing undergrad math and then topping off with some graduate number theory that her advisor straight up proved.
So I'm willing to believe her PhD advisor, who is a fields medalist, had to deal with her rather than actually accepting her as a full student...seeing as her only publication is with him, and her thesis is literally just restating the results but "for the general public."
