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Normally many believe mathematicians are men, however Amalie Emmy Noether is one of which broke this norm. Throughout history there have been women who were mathematicians and who have contributed as much as men and even though their names might have been forgotten or they just were not recognized, their contributions to math have not. Daughter of Max Noether and Amalia Kaufmann, Emmy Noether was born March 23, 1882 in Bavaria Germany. She was the oldest out of her parents four children, “Her brother Fritz Noether and Emmy were the only ones survived childhood” (Agnes scott, 2016.) Emmy lived a rather normal and average childhood learning about arts which was expected from girls at the time. “Emmy did not appear exceptional as a child. Playing …show more content…

As stated her contributions to mathematics have not been forgotten. Around this time she worked with Ernst Otto Fischer an algebraist, both started work on a general theoretical algebra for which her recognition later comes into place. According to University of St.Andrews (2014), “Emmy Noether is one of the world's greatest women mathematicians.” In 1915 she joined what was the Mathematical Institute in Göttingen where she worked with Klein and Hilbert on Einstein’s general relativity theory. In 1918 Emmy proved two theorems that were basic for both general relativity and for elementary particle physics. In about 1921 she made the important step, which we commented on earlier, of bringing the two theories of rings of polynomials and rings of numbers under a single theory of abstract commutative rings.” (University of St.Andrews,2015.) Because of the discrimination and differences between sexes both male and female it made it difficult for Emmy to publish her work until Van der Waerden’s work on Modern algebra was published in 1930 which was that, that Emmy’s work become widely known. However, “Emmy Noether’s most significant achievement runs deeps than theorems in ring theory..” (Association for women in mathematics,

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