Emmy Noether faced sexism and Nazism – 100 years later her contributions to ring theory still influence modern math
- Written by Tamar Lichter Blanks, PhD Candidate in Mathematics, Rutgers University
Emmy Noether made significant contributions to theoretical mathematics. Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAWhen Albert Einstein wrote an obituary for Emmy Noether in 1935, he described her as a “creative mathematical genius” who – despite “unselfish, significant work over a period of many years”...