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Emmy Noether
MATH SUBJECT FOR HIGH
SCHOOL
The Most Important Unknown Mathematician
Quadratic Functions

By Monique De Castro
 Biography
- Emmy Noether was born on March 23, 1882.
- Noether attended University of Göttingen from 1903-1904.
- She was accepted into the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and received a
doctorate in mathematics from 1904-1907. She was one of the first female
students to graduate and receive a PhD.
- Emmy was invited to be a lecturer in Göttingen, but due to her gender and many
opposing parties she wasn’t paid. It was only through the aftermath of World War
1 and the encouragement of Albert Einstein that she was acknowledged as an
official lecturer.
- She was laid off of her position after Adolf Hitler came into power because she
was Jewish. She travelled to America to continue her teaching career.
- Emmy underwent surgery and died a few days later on April 14, 1935. She was
53.
 My relation with Noether

Although I’m no genius, Emmy Noether’s resolve

in the face of adversity was something I admire.
Her pursuit of her passion despite boundaries has
inspired me and many others to chase after our
own. She broke the boundaries of the math and real
world, and proved that the pursuit of knowledge
isn't gender-restricted.
 EMMY’S CONTRIBUTION
Emmy is best known for her many
contributions to abstract algebra and
theoretical physics.

Noether resolved Einstein's general theory

of relativity, and in the process discovered
a landmark theorem. She is most known
for Noether’s law, a link between
symmetries and conserved quantities. Its
significance still persists today as a
“theorem that has been a guiding star to
the 20th and 21st century physics.”
“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians,
Emmy Noether was the most significant creative mathematical
genius thus far produced since the higher education of women
began.”

—ALBERT EINSTEIN