Emmy Noether faced sexism and Nazism – more than 100 years later, her contributions to ring theory still influence modern mathematics
When Albert Einstein wrote an obituary for Emmy Noether in 1935, he described her as a "creative mathematical genius" who - despite "selfless, important work over a period of many years" - did not receive the recognition she deserved.
Noether made groundbreaking contributions to mathematics at a time when women were excluded from academia and when Jewish people like her were persecuted in Nazi Germany, where she lived.
2021 marked the hundredth anniversary of Noether's seminal paper on ring theory, a branch of theoretical mathematics that continues to fascinate and challenge mathematicians like me today.
I remember the first time ...