@inthehands I work on figuration and repetition in poetics. Have published on Wordsworth and set theory. But believe that most of my overwhelmingly female students fear math. My daughter—all girls school—was told that girls learn differently from boys and need concreteness, context, sociality. AP calc reserved for 12th grade; boys’ schools offer from 10th. Daughter is a math major now—had to fight hard to get there.