The thing I find fascinating about both this article and now your comment is that regardless of who's game it is, it seems to be taken as fact that it's a MANS game. You said "you get a wife"...I suppose history isn't littered with too many breakthrough female mathematicians.
I believe the article followed Hardy's quote, and I followed the article lead. I realized after posting that it might be seen as male oriented but I believe the same is true for female mathematicians.
I'll happily look down on applied mathematics, but classifying Emmy Noether as only a physicist would be ridiculous, as a large part of her life's work was indeed pure mathematics. I can't imagine the abuse of history needed to assert otherwise.
And remember, even Hardy, most famous of the Purists, often slummed it with (hold your nose) physicists and on a few occasions even with (the horror) biologists.
