She transcended the boundaries of traditional thinking in mathematics and changed the face of abstract algebra forever: the mathematician Emmy Noether (1882-1935) is considered one of the most ...

Emmy Noether was a mathematician who discovered perhaps the most profound idea in contemporary physics. Noether’s theorem, which she formulated in 1915, says that symmetries in the universe give ...

Emmy Noether is responsible for an idea so important that it ranks alongside Charles ... to provide a guiding light for those stumbling today in the darkness beyond the frontiers of current knowledge.

In the fall of 1915, the foundations of physics began to crack. Einstein’s new theory of gravity seemed to imply that it should be possible to create and destroy energy, a result that threatened to ...

Mathematics and theatrics combine in April in “Diving into Math with Emmy Noether,” a play about the pioneering and ...

The DFG’s Emmy Noether Programme offers exceptionally qualified researchers in the early years of their career (usually up to four years into their post-doc phase) the opportunity to lead an ...