Mathematician, born in Erlangen, SC Germany. She studied at Erlangen and Göttingen. Though invited to Göttingen in 1915 by David Hilbert, as a woman she could not hold a full academic post at that time, but worked there in a semi-honorary capacity until she emigrated to the USA in 1933 to Bryn Mawr and Princeton. One of the leading figures in the development of abstract algebra, the theory of Noetherian rings has been an important subject of later research.
| Emmy Noether | |
|---|---|
| Born |
23 March 1882 Erlangen, Germany |
| Died |
14 April 1935 Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States of America |
Amalie Emmy Noether (March 23, 1882 – April 14, 1935) was a German-born mathematician, said by Einstein in eulogy to be "[i]n the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, [...] the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began." Her father, Max Noether, was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at Erlangen. Fritz Noether was her younger brother, and Gottfried E. Noether was her nephew.
Noether did not show any early precocity at mathematics — as a teenager she was more interested in music and dancing.
Although Erlangen did not allow women to enroll, Noether was able to sit in classes. When Erlangen finally permitted women to enroll in 1904, Noether immediately enrolled as a mathematics student. Edmund Landau declined to describe her as the daughter of Max Noether; but rather stated, "Max Noether was the father of Emmy Noether. Emmy is the origin of coordinates in the Noether family."
Noether fled Germany in 1933; Noether never married, and she had no relatives in the USA. Noether was buried in the Cloisters of Thomas Great Hall on the Bryn Mawr Campus.
Her younger brother, the German mathematician Fritz Noether, fled Germany during the Nazi rule into the Soviet Union in 1934 and he was shot there for anti-Soviet propaganda at Orel on Sept.
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