Emmy Noether Faced Sexism And Nazism - 100 Years Later Her Contributions To Ring Theory Still Influence Modern Math
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...
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