In the 1970s, Arianrhod left her honours program in mathematics to join a radical counterculture community, without electricity, running water, or communications.
[1] She returned to school, and earned a doctorate in general relativity from Monash University.
She remains affiliated with Monash University as an honorary research associate in the mathematical sciences.
[4] The titular heroes are James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, and Isaac Newton, whose portraits Einstein kept.
[6] Seduced by Logic: Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2012; ISBN 978-0-19-993161-3) describes and compares the accomplishments and lives of two women of mathematics separated by a century, Émilie du Châtelet in 18th-century France, and Mary Somerville in 19th-century England.