I'm pretty hopeless with advanced math and physics, but I find the history and social context of it to all be pretty fascinating, so I was surprised to have never really encountered anything about her before.
I think it's clear she's not getting the recognition she deserves in part because she was a woman. She fought for being recognized all her life. And her premature death probably contributes to her comparative obscurity.
I remember a regular biker at work, scientifically-minded, who came in one day and said " I did an experiment yesterday. I was riding home on a straight bit of road and I decided to see what happens when I push othe right hand side of the handlebars. Guess what?"
I learned about Emmy Noether from an excellent episode of In Our Time a few years back https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00025bw
I'm pretty hopeless with advanced math and physics, but I find the history and social context of it to all be pretty fascinating, so I was surprised to have never really encountered anything about her before.
I think it's clear she's not getting the recognition she deserves in part because she was a woman. She fought for being recognized all her life. And her premature death probably contributes to her comparative obscurity.
I remember a regular biker at work, scientifically-minded, who came in one day and said " I did an experiment yesterday. I was riding home on a straight bit of road and I decided to see what happens when I push othe right hand side of the handlebars. Guess what?"