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Except the quote was:
So that's some more years, but I don't think it's really germane. I'm not saying that the time gap proves she's a genius; rather, the time gap makes it harder to ascertain.
On another not-imo-germane-to-the-discussion-note, mathematics education was more or less overhauled during the post-war period in many countries. Mathematics education as an academic discipline, I believe, was an innovation of Klein's that fell out of his work in geometry.