Emmy Noether facts for kids
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Emmy Noether
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Amalie Emmy Noether
23 March 1882 Erlangen, Bavaria, German Empire
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| Died | 14 April 1935 (aged 53) Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Erlangen |
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| Awards | Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award (1932) |
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| Fields | Mathematics and physics |
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| Thesis | On the Formation of the Forming System of the Ternary Biquadratic Form (1907) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Gordan |
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Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a mathematician from Germany who studied abstract algebra. She studied mathematics at the University of Erlangen, and then joined the faculty at the University of Göttingen.
Her main area of research changed over time. From 1908 to 1919, she studied algebraic invariants and number fields. Her work on Noether's theorem has been called "one of the most important mathematical theorems ever proved in guiding the development of modern physics".
From 1920 to 1926, she developed the theory of ideals in commutative rings. From 1927–35, she published works on noncommutative algebras and hypercomplex numbers.
In addition to her own publications, Noether was generous with her ideas and is credited with several lines of research published by other mathematicians, even in fields far removed from her main work, such as algebraic topology.
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Noether grew up in the Bavarian city of Erlangen, depicted here in a 1916 postcard
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Emmy Noether with her brothers Alfred, Fritz, and Robert, before 1918
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Paul Gordan supervised Noether's doctoral dissertation on invariants of biquadratic forms.
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Noether sometimes used postcards to discuss abstract algebra with her colleague, Ernst Fischer. This card is postmarked 10 April 1915.
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In 1915 David Hilbert invited Noether to join the Göttingen mathematics department, challenging the views of some of his colleagues that a woman should not be allowed to teach at a university.
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The mathematics department at the University of Göttingen allowed Noether's habilitation in 1919, four years after she had begun lecturing at the school.
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Noether c. 1930
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Pavel Alexandrov
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Noether taught at the Moscow State University during the winter of 1928–1929.
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Noether visited Zürich in 1932 to deliver a plenary address at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
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Bryn Mawr College provided a welcoming home for Noether during the last two years of her life.
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Noether's ashes were placed under the walkway surrounding the cloisters of Bryn Mawr's M. Carey Thomas Library.
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Table 2 from Noether's dissertation on invariant theory. This table collects 202 of the 331 invariants of ternary biquadratic forms. These forms are graded in two variables x and u. The horizontal direction of the table lists the invariants with increasing grades in x, while the vertical direction lists them with increasing grades in u.
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Helmut Hasse worked with Noether and others to found the theory of central simple algebras.
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The Emmy Noether Campus at the University of Siegen is home to its mathematics and physics departments.
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