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Emmy Noether

1882 - 1935

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Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. Noether was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. As one of the leading mathematicians of her time, she developed theories of rings, fields, and algebras. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emmy Noether is the 49th most popular mathematician (down from 39th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 187th in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Mathematician.

Emmy Noether is most famous for her contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. She was the first woman to be awarded a full professorship at the University of Göttingen in Germany.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Emmy Noether ranks 49 out of 1,004. Before her are Johann Bernoulli, Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Al-Battani, Gottlob Frege, Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, and Urbain Le Verrier. After her are George Boole, Abraham de Moivre, Archytas, August Ferdinand Möbius, Josef Stefan, and Sophie Germain.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Emmy Noether ranks 13. Before her are Georges Braque, Sigrid Undset, Max Born, Georgi Dimitrov, Ion Antonescu, and Wilhelm, German Crown Prince. After her are Günther von Kluge, Percy Williams Bridgman, Abdullah I of Jordan, Kurt von Schleicher, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and Melanie Klein. Among people deceased in 1935, Emmy Noether ranks 10. Before her are John Macleod, Fernando Pessoa, Alfred Dreyfus, T. E. Lawrence, Paul Signac, and Victor Grignard. After her are Alban Berg, Auguste Escoffier, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Astrid of Sweden, Charles Richet, and André Citroën.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emmy Noether ranks 232 out of 7,253. Before her are Maurice, Prince of Orange (1567), Otto von Guericke (1602), Wilhelm Dilthey (1833), Karl Liebknecht (1871), Adolf Butenandt (1903), and Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928). After her are Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor (1075), Edith Stein (1891), Arnulf of Carinthia (850), Hans Memling (1435), Otto Diels (1876), and Alois Alzheimer (1864).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Emmy Noether ranks 6. Before her are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Bernhard Riemann (1826), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), and Gottlob Frege (1848). After her are August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Friedrich Bessel (1784), Karl Weierstrass (1815), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), and Regiomontanus (1436).

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