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Historians of science sometimes lament the fact certain historical figures are famous for the wrong reasons. Alan Turing (1912-54) is perhaps the best example of this phenomenon. Most people associate Turing with the breaking of an encryption device called the
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Emmy Noether, the Math Pioneer Who Faced Down Sexism and the Nazis 17/07/2021 Emmy Noether made significant contributions to theoretical mathematics. Photo: Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA When 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” – did not get the recognition she deserved. Noether made groundbreaking contributions to mathematics at a time when women were barred from academia and when Jewish people like...
A rare woman in mathematics Emmy Noether earned a doctorate in mathematics in 1909, but women were not allowed to work as professors at that time in Germany. Mathematical Assoc, iabutit onat ofth Aatme triimcae, v ia WikimediaCommons Noether was born in 1882 in Erlangen, Germany. Her father was a math professor, but it must have seemed unlikely to a young Noether that she would follow in his footsteps. At the time, few women took classes at German universities, and when they did they could only audit them. Teaching at a university was out of the question. But in 1903 - a few years after Noeth...