"Emmy Noether was one of the most brilliant and important mathematicians of the 20th century. She altered the course of modern physics. Einstein called her a genius. Yet today, almost nobody knows who she is.
In 1915, Noether uncovered one of science's most extraordinary ideas, proving that every symmetry found in nature has a corresponding law of conservation. So, for example, the fact that physical laws work the same today as they did yesterday turns out to be related to the notion that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Noether's theorem is a deep insight that underpins much of modern-day physics and things like the search for the Higgs boson.
DESPITE HER BRILLIANCE, UNIVERSITIES DIDN'T WANT TO HIRE A WOMAN
Even so, as one of the very few female mathematicians working in Germany in her day, Noether faced rampant sexism. As a young woman, she wasn't allowed to formally attend university. Even after she proved herself a first-rate mathematician, male faculties were reluctant to hire her. If that wasn't enough, in 1933, the Nazis ousted her for being Jewish. Even today, she remains all too obscure.
That should change. So it’s welcome news that Google is honoring Noether today with a Google Doodle on her 133rd birthday. To celebrate, here's an introduction to the life and work of a woman Albert Einstein once called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced."====http://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8274777/emmy-noether
"If one proves the equality of two numbers a and b by showing first that "a is less than or equal to b" and then "a is greater than or equal to b", it is unfair, one should instead show that they are really equal by disclosing the inner ground for their equality."==Emmy Noether [Image: biognoether.jpg]
(Mar 24, 2015 08:34 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [...] That should change. So it’s welcome news that Google is honoring Noether today with a Google Doodle on her 133rd birthday. To celebrate, here's an introduction to the life and work of a woman Albert Einstein once called "the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced."====http://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8274777/emmy-noether
Unfortunately, the doodle was only selected by a few countries like Germany and the USA.
"[...] is not being seen in most of Africa, the UK, France, Hungary and many other nations due to the fact that the online editors for those nations chose not to run it, according to a Google Spokesperson. [...] 'It’s very unfortunate that in this day and age there are those who do not automatically consider a universal theory in mathematics to be universally of interest,' says Chess Grandmaster Susan Polgar in an interview. 'I don’t know who the Google editors are in those countries where they chose not to have Emmy Noether as the Doodle, but I am disappointed in their choice.'"LINK
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