Emmy Noether Facts
Emmy Noether Facts
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| Noether was born to a middle class Jewish family in Germany, the daughter of another notable mathematician, Max Noether. |
| She set out to become a language teacher with a focus on English and French, but while studying at the university where her father taught, she should great aptitude and interest in math. |
| After receiving her degree, Noether worked for almost a decade without pay at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen due to the fact that women were typically prohibited from holding academic positions. |
| She was offered a position at the University of Gottingen, but the faculty of the philosophy department (which housed the mathematics studies) objected to a female lecturer. |
| She spent the next four years researching and teaching under the name of one of the men who invited her to the university, David Hilbert. |
| Noether became an important figure in the understanding of algebra, and even her contemporaries recognized her brilliance in proving theorems in the field. |
| Her contributions changed a number of long-held understandings in algebra, rings, and fields, and were crucial in physics, especially her theorem on the basic correlation between symmetry and conservation. |
| Noether's work is divided into three epochs, each with major importance to various fields. |
| The first, which includes her work from 1907 to 1919, primarily involved differential and algebraic invariants, and her pivotal work in physics, her two Noether's theorems. |
| The second epoch, developed between 1920 and 1926, involves her theory of mathematical rings. |
| In the third epoch, formed from 1927 to 1935, Noether focused on three distinct areas of mathematics: noncommutative algebra, linear transformations, and commutative number fields. |
| When the Nazis rose to power in Germany and issued decrees barring Jews from holding university positions, Noether moved to the US and took a position in the mathematics department at Bryn Mawr College. |
| One of Noether's theorems has been called "one of the most important mathematical theorems ever proved in guiding the development of modern physics." |
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