Emmy Noether

She was born in Germany in 1882 to a Jewish family. She followed in the footsteps of her father, Max Noether, the noted mathematician. By 1924 other mathematicians were attending her lectures. Her students became widely known as the Noether Boys. In 1932, she gave a major address to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich. Emmy Noether had arrived. She was a major force in math, algebra, physics.



In 1933, the Nazi government fired her simply because she was Jewish.



That same year, she came to America and took a position at Bryn Mawr College where she would remain for the next three years. In 1935, she unexpectedly died after having undergone surgery for an ovarian cyst.



Emmy Noether's given name is Amalie Noether. She is recognized as the most important woman mathematician ever. Some of her work is absolutely astounding.



She was a shining star, and we are lucky that she chose to live in Pennsylvania. Tell your children about Emmy.



This is a link to a very good, but very thick, article on Emmy Noether at Wikipedia.