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Albert Einstein's Role In The Life Of Emmy Noether

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Likened to Albert Einstein, Emmy Noether didn’t care for her appearance and rather preferred to be judged on her mental capabilities. She played a pivotal role in the creation of abstract algebra, as well as a collaborator on multiple crucial cases one of which involved equipping a formula to Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. She was eccentric at times, unkempt, didn’t wear the traditional clothing for a woman of her time, and above all else she was brilliant in a time when women’s minds were being suppressed (McGrayne 1993).
Noether was born on March 23, 1882 in Erlangen, Germany. She was born into a well-to-do family, her mother was from a family of wholesale merchants and her father Max came from a family of successful iron importers. Emmy was influenced at a young age by her father, who was the first of his family to leave the field of importing iron in exchange for a career as a mathematician (McGrayne 64-65). The older Emmy got, the more she took a liking to mathematics, however she it was difficult for her to learn more about it due to how the world viewed women at the time. German laws made it where girls were forced to learn about household management, elementary pedagogy and child care. Women were meant to live in a domestic manner. She had to spend much of her life waiting for german laws to liberalize. This meant that Emmy had to be creative when it came to educational opportunities (McGrayne 68). She attended teacher’s training programs, studied to

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