Emmy Noether

Amalie Emmy Noether[a] (US: /ˈnʌtər/, UK: /ˈnɜːtə/;

German: [ˈnøːtɐ]; 23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was
Emmy Noether
a German mathematician who made many important
contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's
first and second theorems, which are fundamental in
mathematical physics.[4] She was described by Pavel
Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné,
Hermann Weyl and Norbert Wiener as the most
important woman in the history of mathematics.[5][6][7]
As one of the leading mathematicians of her time, she
developed theories of rings, fields, and algebras. In
physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection
between symmetry and conservation laws.[8]

Noether was born to a Jewish family in the Franconian

town of Erlangen; her father was the mathematician
Max Noether. She originally planned to teach French Noether c. 1900–1910
and English after passing the required examinations Born Amalie Emmy Noether
but instead studied mathematics at the University of 23 March 1882
Erlangen, where her father lectured. After completing Erlangen, Bavaria, German
her doctorate in 1907[9] under the supervision of Paul Empire
Gordan, she worked at the Mathematical Institute of Died 14 April 1935 (aged 53)
Erlangen without pay for seven years. At the time, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania,
women were largely excluded from academic United States
positions. In 1915, she was invited by David Hilbert Nationality German
and Felix Klein to join the mathematics department at
Alma mater University of Erlangen
the University of Göttingen, a world-renowned center
of mathematical research. The philosophical faculty Known for Abstract algebra
objected, however, and she spent four years lecturing Noether's theorem
under Hilbert's name. Her habilitation was approved in Noetherian
1919, allowing her to obtain the rank of
List of namesakes
Privatdozent.[9]
Awards Ackermann–Teubner Memorial
Noether remained a leading member of the Göttingen Award (1932)
mathematics department until 1933; her students were Scientific career
sometimes called the "Noether Boys". In 1924, Dutch
Fields Mathematics and physics
mathematician B. L. van der Waerden joined her circle
Institutions University of Göttingen
and soon became the leading expositor of Noether's
ideas; her work was the foundation for the second Bryn Mawr College
volume of his influential 1931 textbook, Moderne Thesis On Complete Systems of
Algebra. By the time of her plenary address at the 1932 Invariants for Ternary
International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich, Biquadratic Forms (https://gdz.s
her algebraic acumen was recognized around the ub.uni-goettingen.de/id/PPN243
world. The following year, Germany's Nazi 919689_0134) (1907)
government dismissed Jews from university positions, Doctoral Paul Gordan
and Noether moved to the United States to take up a advisor
position at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. There,
Doctoral Max Deuring
she taught graduate and post-doctoral women
students Hans Fitting
including Marie Johanna Weiss, Ruth Stauffer, Grace
Shover Quinn, and Olga Taussky-Todd. At the same Grete Hermann
time, she lectured and performed research at the Jacob Levitzki
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Otto Schilling
Jersey.[9] Chiungtze C. Tsen

Noether's mathematical work has been divided into Werner Weber

three "epochs". [10] In the first (1908–1919), she made Ernst Witt
contributions to the theories of algebraic invariants and
number fields. Her work on differential invariants in the calculus of variations, Noether's theorem, has
been called "one of the most important mathematical theorems ever proved in guiding the development of
modern physics".[11] In the second epoch (1920–1926), she began work that "changed the face of
[abstract] algebra".[12] In her classic 1921 paper Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen (Theory of Ideals in Ring
Domains), Noether developed the theory of ideals in commutative rings into a tool with wide-ranging
applications. She made elegant use of the ascending chain condition, and objects satisfying it are named
Noetherian in her honor. In the third epoch (1927–1935), she published works on noncommutative
algebras and hypercomplex numbers and united the representation theory of groups with the theory of
modules and ideals. In addition to her own publications, Noether was generous with her ideas and is
credited with several lines of research published by other mathematicians, even in fields far removed
from her main work, such as algebraic topology.

Biography

Early life
Emmy Noether was born on 23 March 1882. She was the first of
four children of mathematician Max Noether and Ida Amalia
Kaufmann, both from Jewish merchant families.[13] Her first name
was "Amalie", but she began using her middle name at a young
age and she invariably used the name "Emmy Noether" in her
adult life and her publications.[a]

In her youth, Noether did not stand out academically although she Noether grew up in the Bavarian city
was known for being clever and friendly. She was near-sighted of Erlangen, depicted here in a 1916
and talked with a minor lisp during her childhood. A family friend postcard.
recounted a story years later about young Noether quickly solving
a brain teaser at a children's party, showing logical acumen at an early age.[14] She was taught to cook and
clean, as were most girls of the time, and took piano lessons. She pursued none of these activities with
passion, although she loved to dance.[15]

She had three younger brothers. The eldest, Alfred Noether, was
born in 1883 and was awarded a doctorate in chemistry from
Erlangen in 1909, but died nine years later.[16] Fritz Noether was
born in 1884, studied in Munich and made contributions to applied
mathematics. He was executed in the Soviet Union in 1941.[17]
The youngest, Gustav Robert Noether, was born in 1889. Very
little is known about his life; he suffered from chronic illness and
died in 1928.[18][19]

Education
Emmy Noether with her brothers
Alfred, Fritz, and Robert, before Noether showed early proficiency in French and English. In the
1918 spring of 1900, she took the examination for teachers of these
languages and received an overall score of sehr gut (very good).
Her performance qualified her to teach languages at schools
reserved for girls, but she chose instead to continue her studies at the University of Erlangen,[20] at which
her father was a professor.[21]

This was an unconventional decision; two years earlier, the Academic Senate of the university had
declared that allowing mixed-sex education would "overthrow all academic order".[22] One of just two
women in a university of 986 students, Noether was allowed only to audit classes rather than participate
fully, and she required the permission of individual professors whose lectures she wished to attend.
Despite these obstacles, on 14 July 1903, she passed the graduation exam at a Realgymnasium in
Nuremberg.[20][23][24]

During the 1903–1904 winter semester, she studied at the University of Göttingen, attending lectures
given by astronomer Karl Schwarzschild and mathematicians Hermann Minkowski, Otto Blumenthal,
Felix Klein, and David Hilbert.[25]

In 1903, restrictions on women's full enrollment in Bavarian

universities were rescinded.[26] Noether returned to Erlangen and
officially reentered the university in October 1904, declaring her
intention to focus solely on mathematics. She was one of six
women in her year (two auditors) and the only woman in her
chosen school.[27] Under the supervision of Paul Gordan, she
wrote her dissertation, Über die Bildung des Formensystems der
ternären biquadratischen Form (On Complete Systems of
Invariants for Ternary Biquadratic Forms),[28] in 1907, graduating
summa cum laude later that year.[29] Gordan was a member of the
"computational" school of invariant researchers, and Noether's Paul Gordan supervised Noether's
thesis ended with a list of over 300 explicitly worked-out doctoral dissertation on invariants of
biquadratic forms.
invariants. This approach to invariants was later superseded by the
more abstract and general approach pioneered by Hilbert.[30][31] Although it had been well received,
Noether later described her thesis and some subsequent similar papers she produced as "crap". All of her
later work was in a completely different field.[31][32]

University of Erlangen
From 1908 to 1915, Noether taught at Erlangen's Mathematical Institute without pay, occasionally
substituting for her father, Max Noether, when he was too ill to lecture.[33] She joined the Circolo
Matematico di Palermo in 1908 and the Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung in 1909.[34] In 1910 and
1911, she published an extension of her thesis work from three variables to n variables.[35]

Gordan retired in 1910,[36] and Noether taught under his

successors, Erhard Schmidt and Ernst Fischer, who took
over from the former in 1911.[37] According to her colleague
Hermann Weyl and her biographer Auguste Dick, Fischer
was an important influence on Noether, in particular by
introducing her to the work of David Hilbert.[38][39] Noether
and Fischer shared lively enjoyment of mathematics and
would often discuss lectures long after they were over;
Noether is known to have sent postcards to Fischer
continuing her train of mathematical thoughts.[40][41]

From 1913 to 1916, Noether published several papers

extending and applying Hilbert's methods to mathematical
objects such as fields of rational functions and the invariants
of finite groups.[42] This phase marked Noether's first
exposure to abstract algebra, the field to which she would
make groundbreaking contributions.[43] Noether sometimes used postcards to
discuss abstract algebra with her
In Erlangen, Noether advised two doctoral students:[44] colleague, Ernst Fischer. This card is
Hans Falckenberg and Fritz Seidelmann, who defended their postmarked 10 April 1915.
theses in 1911 and 1916.[45][46] Despite Noether's
significant role, they were both officially under the
supervision of her father. Following the completion of his doctorate, Falckenberg spent time in
Braunschweig and Königsberg before becoming a professor at the University of Giessen[47] while
Seidelmann became a professor in Munich.[44]

University of Göttingen

Habilitation and Noether's theorem

In the spring of 1915, Noether was invited to return to the University of Göttingen by David Hilbert and
Felix Klein. Their effort to recruit her was initially blocked by the philologists and historians among the
philosophical faculty, who insisted that women should not become privatdozenten. In a joint department
meeting on the matter, one faculty member protested: "What will our soldiers think when they return to
the university and find that they are required to learn at the feet of a woman?"[48][49] Hilbert, who
believed Noether's qualifications were the only important issue and that the sex of the candidate was
irrelevant, objected with indignation and scolded those protesting her habilitation. Although his exact
words have not been preserved, his objection is often said to have included the remark that the university
was "not a bathhouse."[38][48][50][51] According to Pavel Alexandrov's recollection, faculty members'
opposition to Noether was based not just in sexism, but also in their objections to her social-democratic
political beliefs and Jewish ancestry.[51]

Noether left for Göttingen in late April; two weeks later her mother died
suddenly in Erlangen. She had previously received medical care for an eye
condition, but its nature and impact on her death is unknown. At about the
same time, Noether's father retired and her brother joined the German
Army to serve in World War I. She returned to Erlangen for several weeks,
mostly to care for her aging father.[52]

During her first years teaching at Göttingen, she did not have an official
position and was not paid. Her lectures often were advertised under
Hilbert's name, and Noether would provide "assistance".[53]

Soon after arriving at Göttingen, she demonstrated her capabilities by

David Hilbert invited proving the theorem now known as Noether's theorem which shows that a
Noether to join Göttingen conservation law is associated with any differentiable symmetry of a
mathematics department in
physical system.[49][54] The paper, Invariante Variationsprobleme, was
1915, challenging the views
of some of his colleagues
presented by a colleague, Felix Klein, on 26 July 1918 at a meeting of the
that a woman should not Royal Society of Sciences at Göttingen.[55][56] Noether presumably did
teach at a university. not present it herself because she was not a member of the society.[57]
American physicists Leon M. Lederman and Christopher T. Hill argue in
their book Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe that Noether's theorem is
"certainly one of the most important mathematical theorems ever proved in guiding the development of
modern physics, possibly on a par with the Pythagorean theorem".[11]

When World War I ended, the German Revolution of 1918–1919

brought a significant change in social attitudes, including more
rights for women. In 1919 the University of Göttingen allowed
Noether to proceed with her habilitation (eligibility for tenure). Her
oral examination was held in late May, and she successfully
delivered her habilitation lecture in June 1919.[58] Noether became The University of Göttingen
a privatdozent,[59] and she delivered that fall semester the first allowed Noether's habilitation in
1919, four years after she had
lectures listed under her own name.[60] She was still not paid for her
begun lecturing at the school.
work.[53]

Three years later, she received a letter from Otto Boelitz, the
Prussian Minister for Science, Art, and Public Education, in which he conferred on her the title of nicht
beamteter ausserordentlicher Professor (an untenured professor with limited internal administrative
rights and functions).[61] This was an unpaid "extraordinary" professorship, not the higher "ordinary"
professorship, which was a civil-service position. Although it recognized the importance of her work, the
position still provided no salary. Noether was not paid for her lectures until she was appointed to the
special position of Lehrbeauftragte für Algebra a year later.[62][63]

Work in abstract algebra

Although Noether's theorem had a significant effect upon classical and quantum mechanics, among
mathematicians she is best remembered for her contributions to abstract algebra. In his introduction to
Noether's Collected Papers, Nathan Jacobson wrote that

The development of abstract algebra, which is one of the most distinctive innovations of
twentieth century mathematics, is largely due to her – in published papers, in lectures, and in
personal influence on her contemporaries.[64]

Noether's work in algebra began in 1920 when, in collaboration with her protégé Werner Schmeidler, she
published a paper about the theory of ideals in which they defined left and right ideals in a ring.[43]

The following year she published the paper Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen,[65] analyzing ascending chain
conditions with regards to (mathematical) ideals, in which she proved the Lasker–Noether theorem in its
full generality. Noted algebraist Irving Kaplansky called this work "revolutionary".[66] The publication
gave rise to the term Noetherian for objects which satisfy the ascending chain condition.[66][67]

In 1924, a young Dutch mathematician, Bartel Leendert van der Waerden,

arrived at the University of Göttingen. He immediately began working with
Noether, who provided invaluable methods of abstract conceptualization.
Van der Waerden later said that her originality was "absolute beyond
comparison".[68] After returning to Amsterdam, he wrote Moderne Algebra,
a central two-volume text in the field; its second volume, published in
1931, borrowed heavily from Noether's work.[69] Although Noether did not
seek recognition, he included as a note in the seventh edition "based in part
on lectures by E. Artin and E. Noether".[70][71][72] Beginning in 1927,
Noether worked closely with Emil Artin, Richard Brauer and Helmut Hasse
on noncommutative algebras.[38][69]
B. L. van der Waerden
Van der Waerden's visit was part of a convergence of mathematicians from
(pictured in 1980) was
all over the world to Göttingen, which had become a major hub of heavily influenced by
mathematical and physical research. Russian mathematicians Pavel Noether at Göttingen.
Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn were the first of several in 1923. [73]

Between 1926 and 1930, Alexandrov regularly lectured at the university,

and he and Noether became good friends.[74] He dubbed her der Noether, using der as an epithet rather
than as the masculine German article.[b][74] She tried to arrange for him to obtain a position at Göttingen
as a regular professor, but was able only to help him secure a scholarship to Princeton University for the
1927–1928 academic year from the Rockefeller Foundation.[74][77]

Graduate students
 In Göttingen, Noether supervised more than a dozen doctoral
students,[44] though most were together with Edmund Landau and
others as she was not allowed to supervise dissertations on her
own.[78][79] Her first was Grete Hermann, who defended her
dissertation in February 1925.[80] Although she is best
remembered for her work on the foundations of quantum
mechanics, her dissertation was considered an important
contribution to ideal theory.[81][82] Hermann later spoke reverently
of her "dissertation-mother".[80]

Around the same time, Heinrich Grell and Rudolf Hölzer wrote
Noether c. 1930
their dissertations under Noether, though the latter died of
tuberculosis shortly before his defense.[80][83][84] Grell defended
his thesis in 1926 and went on to work at the University of Jena and the University of Halle, before losing
his teaching license in 1935 due to accusations of homosexual acts.[44] He was later reinstated and
became a professor at Humboldt University in 1948.[44][80]

Noether then supervised Werner Weber[85] and Jakob Levitzki,[86] who both defended their theses in
1929.[87][88] Weber, who was considered only a modest mathematician,[78] would later take part in
driving Jewish mathematicians out of Göttingen.[89] Levitzki worked first at Yale University and then at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Palestine, making significant contributions (in particular
Levitzky's theorem and the Hopkins–Levitzki theorem) to ring theory.[88]

Other Noether Boys included Max Deuring, Hans Fitting, Ernst Witt, Chiungtze C. Tsen and Otto
Schilling. Deuring, who had been considered the most promising of Noether's students, was awarded his
doctorate in 1930.[90][91] He worked in Hamburg, Marden and Göttingen[c] and is known for his
contributions to arithmetic geometry.[93] Fitting graduated in 1931 with a thesis on abelian groups[94] and
is remembered for his work in group theory, particularly Fitting's theorem and the Fitting lemma.[95] He
died at the age of 31 from a bone disease.[96]

Witt was initially supervised by Noether, but her position was revoked in April 1933 and he was assigned
to Gustav Herglotz instead.[96] He received his PhD in July 1933 with a thesis on the Riemann-Roch
theorem and zeta-functions,[97] and went on to make several contributions that now bear his name.[95]
Tsen, best remembered for proving Tsen's theorem, received his doctorate in December of the same
year.[98] He returned to China in 1935 and started teaching at National Chekiang University,[95] but died
only five years later.[d] Schilling also began studying under Noether but was forced to find a new advisor
due to Noether's emigration. Under Helmut Hasse, he completed his PhD in 1934 at the University of
Marburg.[95][100] He later worked as a post doc at Trinity College, Cambridge, before moving to the
United States.[44]

Noether's other students were Wilhelm Dörnte, who received his doctorate in 1927 with a thesis on
groups,[101] Werner Vorbeck, who did so in 1935 with a thesis on splitting fields,[44] and Wolfgang
Wichmann, who did so 1936 with a thesis on p-adic theory.[102] There is no information about the first
two, but it is known that Wichmann supported a student initiative that unsuccessfully attempted to revoke
Noether's dismissal[103] and died as a soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II.[44]

Noether school
Noether developed a close circle of mathematicians beyond just her doctoral students who shared
Noether's approach to abstract algebra and contributed to the field's development,[104] a group often
referred to as the Noether school.[105][106] An example of this is her close work with Wolfgang Krull,
who greatly advanced commutative algebra with his Hauptidealsatz and his dimension theory for
commutative rings.[107] Another is Gottfried Köthe, who contributed to the development of the theory of
hypercomplex quantities using Noether and Krull's methods.[107]

In addition to her mathematical insight, Noether was respected for her consideration of others. Although
she sometimes acted rudely toward those who disagreed with her, she nevertheless gained a reputation for
constant helpfulness and patient guidance of new students. Her loyalty to mathematical precision caused
one colleague to name her "a severe critic", but she combined this demand for accuracy with a nurturing
attitude.[108] In Noether's obituary, Van der Waerden described her as

Completely unegotistical and free of vanity, she never claimed anything for herself, but
promoted the works of her students above all.[68]

Noether showed a devotion to her subject and her students that extended beyond the academic day. Once,
when the building was closed for a state holiday, she gathered the class on the steps outside, led them
through the woods, and lectured at a local coffee house.[109] Later, after Nazi Germany dismissed her
from teaching, she invited students into her home to discuss their plans for the future and mathematical
concepts.[110]

Influential lectures
Noether's frugal lifestyle was at first due to her being denied pay for her work. However, even after the
university began paying her a small salary in 1923, she continued to live a simple and modest life. She
was paid more generously later in her life, but saved half of her salary to bequeath to her nephew,
Gottfried E. Noether.[111]

Biographers suggest that she was mostly unconcerned about appearance and manners, focusing on her
studies. Olga Taussky-Todd, a distinguished algebraist taught by Noether, described a luncheon during
which Noether, wholly engrossed in a discussion of mathematics, "gesticulated wildly" as she ate and
"spilled her food constantly and wiped it off from her dress, completely unperturbed".[112] Appearance-
conscious students cringed as she retrieved the handkerchief from her blouse and ignored the increasing
disarray of her hair during a lecture. Two female students once approached her during a break in a two-
hour class to express their concern, but they were unable to break through the energetic mathematical
discussion she was having with other students.[113]

Noether did not follow a lesson plan for her lectures.[68] She spoke quickly and her lectures were
considered difficult to follow by many, including Carl Ludwig Siegel and Paul Dubreil.[114][115] Students
who disliked her style often felt alienated.[116] "Outsiders" who occasionally visited Noether's lectures
usually spent only half an hour in the room before leaving in frustration or confusion. A regular student
said of one such instance: "The enemy has been defeated; he has cleared out."[117]

She used her lectures as a spontaneous discussion time with her students, to think through and clarify
important problems in mathematics. Some of her most important results were developed in these lectures,
and the lecture notes of her students formed the basis for several important textbooks, such as those of
van der Waerden and Deuring.[68] Noether transmitted an infectious mathematical enthusiasm to her most
dedicated students, who relished their lively conversations with her.[118][119]

Several of her colleagues attended her lectures and she sometimes allowed others (including her students)
to receive credit for her ideas, resulting in much of her work appearing in papers not under her
name.[69][70] Noether was recorded as having given at least five semester-long courses at Göttingen:[120]

Winter 1924–1925: Gruppentheorie und hyperkomplexe Zahlen [Group Theory and

Hypercomplex Numbers]
Winter 1927–1928: Hyperkomplexe Grössen und Darstellungstheorie [Hypercomplex
Quantities and Representation Theory]
Summer 1928: Nichtkommutative Algebra [Noncommutative Algebra]
Summer 1929: Nichtkommutative Arithmetik [Noncommutative Arithmetic]
Winter 1929–1930: Algebra der hyperkomplexen Grössen [Algebra of Hypercomplex
Quantities]

Moscow State University

In the winter of 1928–1929, Noether accepted an invitation to Moscow State
University, where she continued working with P. S. Alexandrov. In addition to
carrying on with her research, she taught classes in abstract algebra and
algebraic geometry. She worked with the topologists Lev Pontryagin and
Nikolai Chebotaryov, who later praised her contributions to the development of
Galois theory.[121][122][123]

Although politics was not central to her life, Noether took a keen interest in
political matters and, according to Alexandrov, showed considerable support
for the Russian Revolution. She was especially happy to see Soviet advances
in the fields of science and mathematics, which she considered indicative of Pavel Alexandrov
new opportunities made possible by the Bolshevik project. This attitude caused
her problems in Germany, culminating in her eviction from a pension lodging
building, after student leaders complained of living with "a Marxist-leaning Jewess".[124] Hermann Weyl
recalled that "During the wild times after the Revolution of 1918," Noether "sided more or less with the
Social Democrats".[38] She was from 1919 through 1922 a member of the Independent Social Democrats,
a short-lived splinter party. In the words of logician and historian Colin McLarty, "she was not a
Bolshevist but was not afraid to be called one."[125]

Noether planned to return to Moscow, an effort for which she

received support from Alexandrov. After she left Germany in
1933, he tried to help her gain a chair at Moscow State University
through the Soviet Education Ministry. Although this effort proved
unsuccessful, they corresponded frequently during the 1930s, and
in 1935 she made plans for a return to the Soviet Union.[124]
Noether taught at Moscow State
University in the winter of 1928–
1929. Recognition
In 1932 Emmy Noether and Emil Artin received the Ackermann–Teubner Memorial Award for their
contributions to mathematics.[69] The prize included a monetary reward of 500 ℛ︁ℳ︁ and was seen as a
long-overdue official recognition of her considerable work in the field. Nevertheless, her colleagues
expressed frustration at the fact that she was not elected to the Göttingen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften
(academy of sciences) and was never promoted to the position of Ordentlicher Professor[126][127] (full
professor).[61]

Noether's colleagues celebrated her fiftieth birthday, in 1932, in typical mathematicians' style. Helmut
Hasse dedicated an article to her in the Mathematische Annalen, wherein he confirmed her suspicion that
some aspects of noncommutative algebra are simpler than those of commutative algebra, by proving a
noncommutative reciprocity law.[128] This pleased her immensely. He also sent her a mathematical riddle,
which he called the "mμν-riddle of syllables". She solved it immediately, but the riddle has been
lost.[126][127]

In September of the same year, Noether delivered a plenary

address (großer Vortrag) on "Hyper-complex systems in their
relations to commutative algebra and to number theory" at the
International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich. The congress
was attended by 800 people, including Noether's colleagues
Hermann Weyl, Edmund Landau, and Wolfgang Krull. There were
420 official participants and twenty-one plenary addresses
presented. Apparently, Noether's prominent speaking position was
Noether visited Zürich in 1932 to
a recognition of the importance of her contributions to
deliver a plenary address at the
mathematics. The 1932 congress is sometimes described as the International Congress of
high point of her career.[127][129] Mathematicians.

Expulsion from Göttingen by Nazi Germany

When Adolf Hitler became the German Reichskanzler in January 1933, Nazi activity around the country
increased dramatically. At the University of Göttingen, the German Student Association led the attack on
the "un-German spirit" attributed to Jews and was aided by privatdozent and Noether's former student
Werner Weber. Antisemitic attitudes created a climate hostile to Jewish professors. One young protester
reportedly demanded: "Aryan students want Aryan mathematics and not Jewish mathematics."[89]

One of the first actions of Hitler's administration was the Law for the Restoration of the Professional
Civil Service which removed Jews and politically suspect government employees (including university
professors) from their jobs unless they had "demonstrated their loyalty to Germany" by serving in World
War I. In April 1933 Noether received a notice from the Prussian Ministry for Sciences, Art, and Public
Education which read: "On the basis of paragraph 3 of the Civil Service Code of 7 April 1933, I hereby
withdraw from you the right to teach at the University of Göttingen."[130][131] Several of Noether's
colleagues, including Max Born and Richard Courant, also had their positions revoked.[130][131]

Noether accepted the decision calmly, providing support for others during this difficult time. Hermann
Weyl later wrote that "Emmy Noether – her courage, her frankness, her unconcern about her own fate, her
conciliatory spirit – was in the midst of all the hatred and meanness, despair and sorrow surrounding us, a
moral solace."[89] Typically, Noether remained focused on mathematics, gathering students in her
apartment to discuss class field theory. When one of her students appeared in the uniform of the Nazi
paramilitary organization Sturmabteilung (SA), she showed no sign of agitation and, reportedly, even
laughed about it later.[130][131]

Refuge at Bryn Mawr and Princeton

As dozens of newly unemployed professors began searching for
positions outside of Germany, their colleagues in the United States
sought to provide assistance and job opportunities for them. Albert
Einstein and Hermann Weyl were appointed by the Institute for
Advanced Study in Princeton, while others worked to find a
sponsor required for legal immigration. Noether was contacted by
representatives of two educational institutions: Bryn Mawr
Bryn Mawr College provided a
College, in the United States, and Somerville College at the
welcoming home for Noether during
University of Oxford, in England. After a series of negotiations the last two years of her life.
with the Rockefeller Foundation, a grant to Bryn Mawr was
approved for Noether and she took a position there, starting in late
1933.[132][133]

At Bryn Mawr, Noether met and befriended Anna Wheeler, who had studied at Göttingen just before
Noether arrived there. Another source of support at the college was the Bryn Mawr president, Marion
Edwards Park, who enthusiastically invited mathematicians in the area to "see Dr. Noether in
action!"[134][135]

During her time at Bryn Mawr, Noether formed a group, sometimes called the Noether girls,[136] of four
post-doctoral (Grace Shover Quinn, Marie Johanna Weiss, Olga Taussky-Todd, who all went on to have
successful careers in mathematics) and doctoral students (Ruth Stauffer).[137] They enthusiastically
worked through van der Waerden's Moderne Algebra I and parts of Erich Hecke's Theorie der
algebraischen Zahlen (Theory of algebraic numbers).[138] Stauffer was Noether's only doctoral student in
the United States, but Noether died shortly before she graduated.[139] She took her examination with
Richard Brauer and received her degree in June 1935,[140] with a thesis concerning separable normal
extensions.[141] After her doctorate, Stauffer worked as a teacher for a short period and as a statistician
for over 30 years.[44][140]

In 1934, Noether began lecturing at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton upon the invitation of
Abraham Flexner and Oswald Veblen.[142] She also worked with Abraham Albert and Harry
Vandiver.[143] However, she remarked about Princeton University that she was not welcome at "the men's
university, where nothing female is admitted".[144]

Her time in the United States was pleasant, as she was surrounded by supportive colleagues and absorbed
in her favorite subjects.[145] In the summer of 1934, she briefly returned to Germany to see Emil Artin
and her brother Fritz.[146] The latter, after having been forced out of his job at the Technische Hochschule
Breslau, had accepted a position at the Research Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics in Tomsk, in
the Siberian Federal District of Russia.[146] He was subsequently executed during the Medvedev Forest
massacre.[147]
Although many of her former colleagues had been forced out of the universities, she was able to use the
library in Göttingen as a "foreign scholar". Without incident, Noether returned to the United States and
her studies at Bryn Mawr.[148][149]

Death
In April 1935, doctors discovered a tumor in Noether's pelvis. Worried about complications from surgery,
they ordered two days of bed rest first. During the operation they discovered an ovarian cyst "the size of a
large cantaloupe".[150] Two smaller tumors in her uterus appeared to be benign and were not removed to
avoid prolonging surgery. For three days she appeared to convalesce normally, and she recovered quickly
from a circulatory collapse on the fourth. On 14 April, Noether fell unconscious, her temperature soared
to 109 °F (42.8 °C), and she died. "[I]t is not easy to say what had occurred in Dr. Noether", one of the
physicians wrote. "It is possible that there was some form of unusual and virulent infection, which struck
the base of the brain where the heat centers are supposed to be located." She was 53.[150]

A few days after Noether's death, her friends and associates at

Bryn Mawr held a small memorial service at College
President Park's house.[151] Hermann Weyl and Richard
Brauer both traveled from Princeton and delivered
eulogies.[152] In the months that followed, written tributes
began to appear around the globe: Albert Einstein joined van
der Waerden, Weyl, and Pavel Alexandrov in paying their
respects.[5] Her body was cremated and the ashes interred
under the walkway around the cloisters of the M. Carey
Thomas Library at Bryn Mawr.[153][154] Noether's ashes were placed under the
cloistered walkway of Bryn Mawr's M.
Carey Thomas Library.
Contributions to mathematics and
physics
Noether's work in abstract algebra and topology was influential in mathematics, while Noether's theorem
has widespread consequences for theoretical physics and dynamical systems. Noether showed an acute
propensity for abstract thought, which allowed her to approach problems of mathematics in fresh and
original ways.[40] Her friend and colleague Hermann Weyl described her scholarly output in three epochs:

(1) the period of relative dependence, 1907–1919

(2) the investigations grouped around the general theory of ideals 1920–1926

(3) the study of the non-commutative algebras, their representations by linear transformations,
and their application to the study of commutative number fields and their arithmetics

— Weyl 1935

In the first epoch (1907–1919), Noether dealt primarily with differential and algebraic invariants,
beginning with her dissertation under Paul Gordan. Her mathematical horizons broadened, and her work
became more general and abstract, as she became acquainted with the work of David Hilbert, through
close interactions with a successor to Gordan, Ernst Sigismund Fischer. Shortly after moving to Göttingen
in 1915, she proved the two Noether's theorems, "one of the most important mathematical theorems ever
proved in guiding the development of modern physics".[11]

In the second epoch (1920–1926), Noether devoted herself to developing the theory of mathematical
rings.[155] In the third epoch (1927–1935), Noether focused on noncommutative algebra, linear
transformations, and commutative number fields.[156] Although the results of Noether's first epoch were
impressive and useful, her fame among mathematicians rests more on the groundbreaking work she did in
her second and third epochs, as noted by Hermann Weyl and B. L. van der Waerden in their obituaries of
her.[38][68]

In these epochs, she was not merely applying ideas and methods of the earlier mathematicians; rather, she
was crafting new systems of mathematical definitions that would be used by future mathematicians. In
particular, she developed a completely new theory of ideals in rings, generalizing the earlier work of
Richard Dedekind. She is also renowned for developing ascending chain conditions – a simple finiteness
condition that yielded powerful results in her hands.[157] Such conditions and the theory of ideals enabled
Noether to generalize many older results and to treat old problems from a new perspective, such as the
topics of algebraic invariants that had been studied by her father and elimination theory, discussed below.

Historical context
In the century from 1832 to Noether's death in 1935, the field of mathematics – specifically algebra –
underwent a profound revolution whose reverberations are still being felt. Mathematicians of previous
centuries had worked on practical methods for solving specific types of equations, e.g., cubic, quartic,
and quintic equations, as well as on the related problem of constructing regular polygons using compass
and straightedge. Beginning with Carl Friedrich Gauss's 1832 proof that prime numbers such as five can
be factored in Gaussian integers,[158] Évariste Galois's introduction of permutation groups in 1832
(although, because of his death, his papers were published only in 1846, by Liouville), William Rowan
Hamilton's description of quaternions in 1843, and Arthur Cayley's more modern definition of groups in
1854, research turned to determining the properties of ever-more-abstract systems defined by ever-more-
universal rules. Noether's most important contributions to mathematics were to the development of this
new field, abstract algebra.[159]

Background on abstract algebra and begriffliche Mathematik (conceptual

mathematics)
Two of the most basic objects in abstract algebra are groups and rings:

A group consists of a set of elements and a single operation which combines a first and a
second element and returns a third. The operation must satisfy certain constraints for it to
determine a group: it must be closed (when applied to any pair of elements of the
associated set, the generated element must also be a member of that set), it must be
associative, there must be an identity element (an element which, when combined with
another element using the operation, results in the original element, such as by multiplying a
number by one), and for every element there must be an inverse element.[160][161]
A ring likewise, has a set of elements, but now has two operations. The first operation must
make the set a commutative group, and the second operation is associative and distributive
with respect to the first operation. It may or may not be commutative; this means that the
result of applying the operation to a first and a second element is the same as to the second
 and first – the order of the elements does not matter.[162] If every non-zero element has a
multiplicative inverse (an element x such that ax = xa = 1), the ring is called a division ring.
A field is defined as a commutative[e] division ring. For instance, the integers form a
commutative ring whose elements are the integers, and the combining operations are
addition and multiplication. Any pair of integers can be added or multiplied, always resulting
in another integer, and the first operation, addition, is commutative, i.e., for any elements a
and b in the ring, a + b = b + a. The second operation, multiplication, also is commutative,
but that need not be true for other rings, meaning that a combined with b might be different
from b combined with a. Examples of noncommutative rings include matrices and
quaternions. The integers do not form a division ring, because the second operation cannot
always be inverted; for example, there is no integer a such that 3a = 1.[163][164]
The integers have additional properties which do not generalize to all commutative rings. An important
example is the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, which says that every positive integer can be factored
uniquely into prime numbers.[165] Unique factorizations do not always exist in other rings, but Noether
found a unique factorization theorem, now called the Lasker–Noether theorem, for the ideals of many
rings.[166] As detailed below, Noether's work included determining what properties do hold for all rings,
devising novel analogs of the old integer theorems, and determining the minimal set of assumptions
required to yield certain properties of rings.

Groups are frequently studied through group representations.[167] In their most general form, these
consist of a choice of group, a set, and an action of the group on the set, that is, an operation which takes
an element of the group and an element of the set and returns an element of the set. Most often, the set is
a vector space, and the group describes the symmetries of the vector space. For example, there is a group
which represents the rigid rotations of space. Rotations are a type of symmetry of space, because the laws
of physics themselves do not pick out a preferred direction.[168] Noether used these sorts of symmetries in
her work on invariants in physics.[169]

A powerful way of studying rings is through their modules. A module consists of a choice of ring, another
set, usually distinct from the underlying set of the ring and called the underlying set of the module, an
operation on pairs of elements of the underlying set of the module, and an operation which takes an
element of the ring and an element of the module and returns an element of the module.[170]

The underlying set of the module and its operation must form a group. A module is a ring-theoretic
version of a group representation: ignoring the second ring operation and the operation on pairs of
module elements determines a group representation. The real utility of modules is that the kinds of
modules that exist and their interactions, reveal the structure of the ring in ways that are not apparent
from the ring itself. An important special case of this is an algebra.[f] An algebra consists of a choice of
two rings and an operation which takes an element from each ring and returns an element of the second
ring. This operation makes the second ring into a module over the first.[171]

Words such as "element" and "combining operation" are very general, and can be applied to many real-
world and abstract situations. Any set of things that obeys all the rules for one (or two) operation(s) is, by
definition, a group (or ring), and obeys all theorems about groups (or rings). Integer numbers, and the
operations of addition and multiplication, are just one example. For instance, the elements might be
logical propositions, where the first combining operation is exclusive or and the second is logical
conjunction.[172] Theorems of abstract algebra are powerful because they are general; they govern many
systems. It might be imagined that little could be concluded about objects defined with so few properties,
but precisely therein lay Noether's gift to discover the maximum that could be concluded from a given set
of properties, or conversely, to identify the minimum set, the essential properties responsible for a
particular observation. Unlike most mathematicians, she did not make abstractions by generalizing from
known examples; rather, she worked directly with the abstractions. In his obituary of Noether,
van der Waerden recalled that

The maxim by which Emmy Noether was guided throughout her work might be formulated as
follows: "Any relationships between numbers, functions, and operations become transparent,
generally applicable, and fully productive only after they have been isolated from their
particular objects and been formulated as universally valid concepts."[173]

This is the begriffliche Mathematik (purely conceptual mathematics) that was characteristic of Noether.
This style of mathematics was consequently adopted by other mathematicians, especially in the (then
new) field of abstract algebra.[174]

First epoch (1908–1919)

Algebraic invariant theory

Much of Noether's work in the first epoch of her career was
associated with invariant theory, principally algebraic
invariant theory. Invariant theory is concerned with
expressions that remain constant (invariant) under a group of
transformations.[175] As an everyday example, if a rigid
yardstick is rotated, the coordinates of its endpoints change,
but its length remains the same. A more sophisticated
example of an invariant is the discriminant B2 − 4AC of a
homogeneous quadratic polynomial Ax2 + Bxy + Cy2,
where x and y are indeterminates. The discriminant is called Table 2 from Noether's dissertation[28] on
"invariant" because it is not changed by linear substitutions invariant theory. This table collects 202 of
x → ax + by and y → cx + dy with determinant the 331 invariants of ternary biquadratic
forms. These forms are graded in two
ad − bc = 1. These substitutions form the special linear
variables x and u. The horizontal
group SL2. direction of the table lists the invariants
with increasing grades in x, while the
One can ask for all polynomials in A, B, and C that are vertical direction lists them with
unchanged by the action of SL2; these turn out to be the increasing grades in u.
polynomials in the discriminant.[176] More generally, one can
ask for the invariants of homogeneous polynomials
A0xry0 + ... + Arx0yr of higher degree, which will be certain polynomials in the coefficients
A0, ..., Ar, and more generally still, one can ask the similar question for homogeneous polynomials in
more than two variables.[177]

One of the main goals of invariant theory was to solve the "finite basis problem". The sum or product of
any two invariants is invariant, and the finite basis problem asked whether it was possible to get all the
invariants by starting with a finite list of invariants, called generators, and then, adding or multiplying the
generators together.[178] For example, the discriminant gives a finite basis (with one element) for the
invariants of a quadratic polynomial.[176]

Noether's advisor, Paul Gordan, was known as the "king of invariant theory", and his chief contribution to
mathematics was his 1870 solution of the finite basis problem for invariants of homogeneous polynomials
in two variables.[179][180] He proved this by giving a constructive method for finding all of the invariants
and their generators, but was not able to carry out this constructive approach for invariants in three or
more variables. In 1890, David Hilbert proved a similar statement for the invariants of homogeneous
polynomials in any number of variables.[181][182] Furthermore, his method worked, not only for the
special linear group, but also for some of its subgroups such as the special orthogonal group.[183]

Noether followed Gordan's lead, writing her doctoral dissertation and several other publications on
invariant theory. She extended Gordan's results and also built upon Hilbert's research. Later, she would
disparage this work, finding it of little interest and admitting to forgetting the details of it.[184] Hermann
Weyl wrote,

[A] greater contrast is hardly imaginable than between her first paper, the dissertation, and
her works of maturity; for the former is an extreme example of formal computations and the
latter constitute an extreme and grandiose example of conceptual axiomatic thinking in
mathematics.[185]

Galois theory
Galois theory concerns transformations of number fields that permute the roots of an equation.[186]
Consider a polynomial equation of a variable x of degree n, in which the coefficients are drawn from
some ground field, which might be, for example, the field of real numbers, rational numbers, or the
integers modulo 7. There may or may not be choices of x, which make this polynomial evaluate to zero.
Such choices, if they exist, are called roots.[187] For example, if the polynomial is x2 + 1 and the field is
the real numbers, then the polynomial has no roots, because any choice of x makes the polynomial greater
than or equal to one.[188] If the field is extended, however, then the polynomial may gain roots,[189] and if
it is extended enough, then it always has a number of roots equal to its degree.[190]

Continuing the previous example, if the field is enlarged to the complex numbers, then the polynomial
gains two roots, +i and −i, where i is the imaginary unit, that is, i 2 = −1. More generally, the extension
field in which a polynomial can be factored into its roots is known as the splitting field of the
polynomial.[191]

The Galois group of a polynomial is the set of all transformations of the splitting field which preserve the
ground field and the roots of the polynomial.[192] (These transformations are called automorphisms.) The
Galois group of x2 + 1 consists of two elements: The identity transformation, which sends every
complex number to itself, and complex conjugation, which sends +i to −i. Since the Galois group does
not change the ground field, it leaves the coefficients of the polynomial unchanged, so it must leave the
set of all roots unchanged. Each root can move to another root, however, so transformation determines a
permutation of the n roots among themselves. The significance of the Galois group derives from the
fundamental theorem of Galois theory, which proves that the fields lying between the ground field and
the splitting field are in one-to-one correspondence with the subgroups of the Galois group.[193]
In 1918, Noether published a paper on the inverse Galois problem.[194] Instead of determining the Galois
group of transformations of a given field and its extension, Noether asked whether, given a field and a
group, it always is possible to find an extension of the field that has the given group as its Galois group.
She reduced this to "Noether's problem", which asks whether the fixed field of a subgroup G of the
permutation group Sn acting on the field k(x1, ..., xn) always is a pure transcendental extension of the
field k. (She first mentioned this problem in a 1913 paper,[195] where she attributed the problem to her
colleague Fischer.) She showed this was true for n = 2, 3, or 4. In 1969, Richard Swan found a counter-
example to Noether's problem, with n = 47 and G a cyclic group of order 47[196] (although this group can
be realized as a Galois group over the rationals in other ways). The inverse Galois problem remains
unsolved.[197]

Physics
Noether was brought to Göttingen in 1915 by David Hilbert and Felix Klein, who wanted her expertise in
invariant theory to help them in understanding general relativity,[198] a geometrical theory of gravitation
developed mainly by Albert Einstein. Hilbert had observed that the conservation of energy seemed to be
violated in general relativity, because gravitational energy could itself gravitate. Noether provided the
resolution of this paradox, and a fundamental tool of modern theoretical physics, in a 1918 paper.[199]
This paper presented two theorems, of which the first is known as Noether's theorem.[200] Together, these
theorems not only solve the problem for general relativity, but also determine the conserved quantities for
every system of physical laws that possesses some continuous symmetry.[201] Upon receiving her work,
Einstein wrote to Hilbert:

Yesterday I received from Miss Noether a very interesting paper on invariants. I'm impressed
that such things can be understood in such a general way. The old guard at Göttingen should
take some lessons from Miss Noether! She seems to know her stuff.[202]

For illustration, if a physical system behaves the same, regardless of how it is oriented in space, the
physical laws that govern it are rotationally symmetric; from this symmetry, Noether's theorem shows the
angular momentum of the system must be conserved.[169][203] The physical system itself need not be
symmetric; a jagged asteroid tumbling in space conserves angular momentum despite its asymmetry.
Rather, the symmetry of the physical laws governing the system is responsible for the conservation law.
As another example, if a physical experiment works the same way at any place and at any time, then its
laws are symmetric under continuous translations in space and time; by Noether's theorem, these
symmetries account for the conservation laws of linear momentum and energy within this system,
respectively.[204]

At the time, physicists were not familiar with Sophus Lie's theory of continuous groups, on which
Noether had built. Many physicists first learned of Noether's theorem from an article by Edward Lee Hill
that presented only a special case of it. Consequently, the full scope of her result was not immediately
appreciated.[205] During the latter half of the 20th century, however, Noether's theorem became a
fundamental tool of modern theoretical physics, both because of the insight it gives into conservation
laws, and also, as a practical calculation tool. Her theorem allows researchers to determine the conserved
quantities from the observed symmetries of a physical system. Conversely, it facilitates the description of
a physical system based on classes of hypothetical physical laws. For illustration, suppose that a new
physical phenomenon is discovered. Noether's theorem provides a test for theoretical models of the
phenomenon: If the theory has a continuous symmetry, then Noether's theorem guarantees that the theory
has a conserved quantity, and for the theory to be correct, this conservation must be observable in
experiments.[8]

Second epoch (1920–1926)

Ascending and descending chain conditions

In this epoch, Noether became famous for her deft use of ascending (Teilerkettensatz) or descending
(Vielfachenkettensatz) chain conditions.[157] A sequence of non-empty subsets A1, A2, A3, ... of a set S is
usually said to be ascending if each is a subset of the next:

Conversely, a sequence of subsets of S is called descending if each contains the next subset:

A chain becomes constant after a finite number of steps if there is an n such that for all
m ≥ n. A collection of subsets of a given set satisfies the ascending chain condition if every ascending
sequence becomes constant after a finite number of steps. It satisfies the descending chain condition if
any descending sequence becomes constant after a finite number of steps.[206] Chain conditions can be
used to show that every set of sub-objects has a maximal/minimal element, or that a complex object can
be generated by a smaller number of elements.[207]

Many types of objects in abstract algebra can satisfy chain conditions, and usually if they satisfy an
ascending chain condition, they are called Noetherian in her honor.[208] By definition, a Noetherian ring
satisfies an ascending chain condition on its left and right ideals, whereas a Noetherian group is defined
as a group in which every strictly ascending chain of subgroups is finite. A Noetherian module is a
module in which every strictly ascending chain of submodules becomes constant after a finite number of
steps.[209][210] A Noetherian space is a topological space whose open subsets satisfy the ascending chain
condition;[g] this definition makes the spectrum of a Noetherian ring a Noetherian topological
space.[211][212]

The chain condition often is "inherited" by sub-objects. For example, all subspaces of a Noetherian space
are Noetherian themselves; all subgroups and quotient groups of a Noetherian group are Noetherian; and,
mutatis mutandis, the same holds for submodules and quotient modules of a Noetherian module.[213] The
chain condition also may be inherited by combinations or extensions of a Noetherian object. For example,
finite direct sums of Noetherian rings are Noetherian, as is the ring of formal power series over a
Noetherian ring.[214]

Another application of such chain conditions is in Noetherian induction – also known as well-founded
induction – which is a generalization of mathematical induction. It frequently is used to reduce general
statements about collections of objects to statements about specific objects in that collection. Suppose
that S is a partially ordered set. One way of proving a statement about the objects of S is to assume the
existence of a counterexample and deduce a contradiction, thereby proving the contrapositive of the
original statement. The basic premise of Noetherian induction is that every non-empty subset of S
contains a minimal element. In particular, the set of all counterexamples contains a minimal element, the
minimal counterexample. In order to prove the original statement, therefore, it suffices to prove
something seemingly much weaker: For any counter-example, there is a smaller counter-example.[215]

Commutative rings, ideals, and modules

Noether's paper, Idealtheorie in Ringbereichen (Theory of Ideals in Ring Domains, 1921),[65] is the
foundation of general commutative ring theory, and gives one of the first general definitions of a
commutative ring.[h][216] Before her paper, most results in commutative algebra were restricted to special
examples of commutative rings, such as polynomial rings over fields or rings of algebraic integers.
Noether proved that in a ring which satisfies the ascending chain condition on ideals, every ideal is
finitely generated. In 1943, French mathematician Claude Chevalley coined the term Noetherian ring to
describe this property.[216] A major result in Noether's 1921 paper is the Lasker–Noether theorem, which
extends Lasker's theorem on the primary decomposition of ideals of polynomial rings to all Noetherian
rings.[43][217] The Lasker–Noether theorem can be viewed as a generalization of the fundamental theorem
of arithmetic which states that any positive integer can be expressed as a product of prime numbers, and
that this decomposition is unique.[166]

Noether's work Abstrakter Aufbau der Idealtheorie in algebraischen Zahl- und Funktionenkörpern
(Abstract Structure of the Theory of Ideals in Algebraic Number and Function Fields, 1927)[218]
characterized the rings in which the ideals have unique factorization into prime ideals (now called
Dedekind domains).[219] Noether showed that these rings were characterized by five conditions: they
must satisfy the ascending and descending chain conditions, they must possess a unit element but no zero
divisors, and they must be integrally closed in their associated field of fractions.[219][220] This paper also
contains what now are called the isomorphism theorems,[221] which describe some fundamental natural
isomorphisms, and some other basic results on Noetherian and Artinian modules.[222]

Elimination theory
In 1923–1924, Noether applied her ideal theory to elimination theory in a formulation that she attributed
to her student, Kurt Hentzelt. She showed that fundamental theorems about the factorization of
polynomials could be carried over directly.[223][224][225]

Traditionally, elimination theory is concerned with eliminating one or more variables from a system of
polynomial equations, often by the method of resultants.[226] For illustration, a system of equations often
can be written in the form

Mv = 0
where a matrix (or linear transform) M (without the variable x) times a vector v (that only has non-zero
powers of x) is equal to the zero vector, 0. Hence, the determinant of the matrix M must be zero,
providing a new equation in which the variable x has been eliminated.

Invariant theory of finite groups

Techniques such as Hilbert's original non-constructive solution to the finite basis problem could not be
used to get quantitative information about the invariants of a group action, and furthermore, they did not
apply to all group actions. In her 1915 paper,[227] Noether found a solution to the finite basis problem for
a finite group of transformations G acting on a finite-dimensional vector space over a field of
characteristic zero. Her solution shows that the ring of invariants is generated by homogeneous invariants
whose degree is less than, or equal to, the order of the finite group; this is called Noether's bound. Her
paper gave two proofs of Noether's bound, both of which also work when the characteristic of the field is
coprime to (the factorial of the order of the group G). The degrees of generators need not satisfy
Noether's bound when the characteristic of the field divides the number ,[228] but Noether was not
able to determine whether this bound was correct when the characteristic of the field divides but not
. For many years, determining the truth or falsehood of this bound for this particular case was an open
problem, called "Noether's gap". It was finally solved independently by Fleischmann in 2000 and Fogarty
in 2001, who both showed that the bound remains true.[229][230]

In her 1926 paper,[231] Noether extended Hilbert's theorem to representations of a finite group over any
field; the new case that did not follow from Hilbert's work is when the characteristic of the field divides
the order of the group. Noether's result was later extended by William Haboush to all reductive groups by
his proof of the Mumford conjecture.[232] In this paper Noether also introduced the Noether
normalization lemma, showing that a finitely generated domain A over a field k has a set {x1, ..., xn} of
algebraically independent elements such that A is integral over k[x1, ..., xn].

Topology
As noted by Hermann Weyl in his obituary, Noether's
contributions to topology illustrate her generosity with ideas
and how her insights could transform entire fields of
mathematics.[38] In topology, mathematicians study the
properties of objects that remain invariant even under
deformation, properties such as their connectedness. An old
joke is that "a topologist cannot distinguish a donut from a
coffee mug", since they can be continuously deformed into one
another.[233]

Noether is credited with fundamental ideas that led to the

development of algebraic topology from the earlier
combinatorial topology, specifically, the idea of homology A continuous deformation (homotopy)
groups.[234] According to Alexandrov, Noether attended of a coffee cup into a doughnut (torus)
and back
lectures given by him and Heinz Hopf in the summers of 1926
and 1927, where "she continually made observations which
were often deep and subtle"[235] and he continues that,

When ... she first became acquainted with a systematic construction of combinatorial topology,
she immediately observed that it would be worthwhile to study directly the groups of algebraic
complexes and cycles of a given polyhedron and the subgroup of the cycle group consisting of
cycles homologous to zero; instead of the usual definition of Betti numbers, she suggested
immediately defining the Betti group as the complementary (quotient) group of the group of all
cycles by the subgroup of cycles homologous to zero. This observation now seems self-evident.
But in those years (1925–1928) this was a completely new point of view.[236]
Noether's suggestion that topology be studied algebraically was adopted immediately by Hopf,
Alexandrov, and others,[236] and it became a frequent topic of discussion among the mathematicians of
Göttingen.[237] Noether observed that her idea of a Betti group makes the Euler–Poincaré formula simpler
to understand, and Hopf's own work on this subject[238] "bears the imprint of these remarks of Emmy
Noether".[239] Noether mentions her own topology ideas only as an aside in a 1926 publication,[240]
where she cites it as an application of group theory.[241]

This algebraic approach to topology was also developed independently in Austria. In a 1926–1927 course
given in Vienna, Leopold Vietoris defined a homology group, which was developed by Walther Mayer
into an axiomatic definition in 1928.[242]

Third epoch (1927–1935)

Hypercomplex numbers and representation theory

Much work on hypercomplex numbers and group representations was
carried out in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but remained
disparate. Noether united these earlier results and gave the first general
representation theory of groups and algebras.[243][244] This single work by
Noether was said to have ushered in a new period in modern algebra and
to have been of fundamental importance for its development.[245]

Briefly, Noether subsumed the structure theory of associative algebras and

the representation theory of groups into a single arithmetic theory of
Helmut Hasse worked with
modules and ideals in rings satisfying ascending chain conditions.[244]
Noether and others to found
the theory of central simple
Noncommutative algebra algebras.

Noether also was responsible for a number of other advances in the field
of algebra. With Emil Artin, Richard Brauer, and Helmut Hasse, she founded the theory of central simple
algebras.[246]

A paper by Noether, Helmut Hasse, and Richard Brauer pertains to division algebras,[247] which are
algebraic systems in which division is possible. They proved two important theorems: a local-global
theorem stating that if a finite-dimensional central division algebra over a number field splits locally
everywhere then it splits globally (so is trivial), and from this, deduced their Hauptsatz ("main theorem"):

Every finite-dimensional central division algebra over an algebraic number field F splits over
a cyclic cyclotomic extension.

These theorems allow one to classify all finite-dimensional central division algebras over a given number
field. A subsequent paper by Noether showed, as a special case of a more general theorem, that all
maximal subfields of a division algebra D are splitting fields.[248] This paper also contains the Skolem–
Noether theorem, which states that any two embeddings of an extension of a field k into a finite-
dimensional central simple algebra over k are conjugate. The Brauer–Noether theorem[249] gives a
characterization of the splitting fields of a central division algebra over a field.[250]

Legacy
Noether's work continues to be relevant for the development
of theoretical physics and mathematics, and she is considered
one of the most important mathematicians of the twentieth
century.[154][252] During her lifetime and even until today,
Noether has also been characterized as the greatest woman
mathematician in recorded history[6][7][253] by
mathematicians such as Pavel Alexandrov,[254] Hermann
Weyl,[255] and Jean Dieudonné.[256]
The Emmy–Noether–Campus at the
In a letter to The New York Times, Albert Einstein wrote:[5] University of Siegen is home to its
mathematics and physics

In the judgment of the most competent living departments.[251]

mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most

significant creative mathematical genius thus far
produced since the higher education of women
began. In the realm of algebra, in which the most
gifted mathematicians have been busy for centuries,
she discovered methods which have proved of
enormous importance in the development of the
present-day younger generation of mathematicians.

In his obituary, fellow algebraist B. L. van der Waerden says that her mathematical originality was
"absolute beyond comparison",[257] and Hermann Weyl said that Noether "changed the face of [abstract]
algebra by her work".[12] Mathematician and historian Jeremy Gray wrote that any textbook on abstract
algebra bears the evidence of Noether's contributions: "Mathematicians simply do ring theory her
way."[208] Several things now bear her name, including many mathematical objects,[208] and an asteroid,
7001 Noether.[258]

See also
List of things named after Emmy Noether
Timeline of women in science

Notes
a. Emmy is the Rufname, the second of two official given names, intended for daily use. This
can be seen in the résumé submitted by Noether to the University of Erlangen in 1907.[1][2]
 Sometimes Emmy is mistakenly reported as a short form for Amalie, or misreported as
Emily; for example, the latter was used by Lee Smolin in a letter for The Reality Club.[3]
b. The nickname was not always used in a well-meaning manner.[75] In Noether's obituary,
Hermann stated that

The power of your genius seemed to transcend the bounds of your sex, which is
why we in Göttingen, in awed mockery, often spoke of you in the masculine form
as "der Noether."[38][76]

c. When Noether was forced to leave Germany in 1933, she wished for the university to
appoint Deuring as her successor,[92] but he only started teaching there in 1950.[91]
d. Accounts of Tsen's date of death vary: Kimberling (1981, p. 41) states that he died "some
time in 1939 or 40" and Ding, Kang & Tan (1999) state that he died in November 1940, but a
local newspaper recorded his date of death as 1 October 1940.[99]
e. The nomenclature is not consistent.
f. The word algebra means both a subject within mathematics as well as an object studied in
the subject of algebra.
g. Or whose closed subsets satisfy the descending chain condition.[211]
h. The first definition of an abstract ring was given by Abraham Fraenkel in 1914, but the
definition in current use was initially formulated by Masazo Sono in a 1917 paper.[216]

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Selected works by Emmy Noether

Noether, Emmy (1908), "Über die Bildung des Formensystems der ternären biquadratischen
Form" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130308102907/http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_ca
che/dms/load/img/?IDDOC=261200) [On Complete Systems of Invariants for Ternary
Biquadratic Forms], Journal für die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik (in German), 1908
(134), DE: 23–90 and two tables, doi:10.1515/crll.1908.134.23 (https://doi.org/10.1515%2Fc
rll.1908.134.23), S2CID 119967160 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:119967160),
archived from the original (http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/img/?IDDOC
=261200) on 8 March 2013
——— (1913), "Rationale Funktionenkörper" (https://web.archive.org/web/2013030810291
2/http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/img/?IDDOC=244058) [Rational
Function Fields], J. Ber. D. DMV (in German), 22: 316–319, archived from the original (htt
p://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/img/?IDDOC=244058) on 8 March 2013
——— (1915), "Der Endlichkeitssatz der Invarianten endlicher Gruppen" (http://www.digizeit
schriften.de/download/PPN235181684_0077/log12.pdf) [The Finiteness Theorem for
Invariants of Finite Groups] (PDF), Mathematische Annalen (in German), 77: 89–92,
doi:10.1007/BF01456821 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF01456821), S2CID 121213008 (htt
ps://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:121213008)
——— (1918), "Gleichungen mit vorgeschriebener Gruppe" (https://web.archive.org/web/20
140903092131/http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/index.php?id=11&PPN=GDZPPN00226673
3&L=1) [Equations with Prescribed Group], Mathematische Annalen (in German), 78 (1–4):
221–229, doi:10.1007/BF01457099 (https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF01457099),
S2CID 122353858 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:122353858), archived from the
original (http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/index.php?id=11&PPN=GDZPPN002266733&L=1)
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——— (1918b). "Invariante Variationsprobleme" [Invariant Variation Problems]. Nachr. D.
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Further reading

Books
Phillips, Lee (2024). Einstein's Tutor: The Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of
Modern Physics. PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781541702974.
Lemmermeyer, Franz; Roquette, Peter, eds. (2006). Helmut Hasse und Emmy Noether –
Die Korrespondenz 1925–1935 (http://univerlag.uni-goettingen.de/handle/3/isbn-3-938616-3
5-0) [Helmut Hasse and Emmy Noether – Their Correspondence 1925–1935] (PDF).
Göttingen University. doi:10.17875/gup2006-49 (https://doi.org/10.17875%2Fgup2006-49).
ISBN 978-3-938616-35-2.

Articles
Angier, Natalie (26 March 2012). "The Mighty Mathematician You've Never Heard Of" (http
s://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/science/emmy-noether-the-most-significant-mathematicia
n-youve-never-heard-of.html). The New York Times. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
Blue, Meredith (2001). Galois Theory and Noether's Problem (https://web.archive.org/web/2
0080529020714/http://mcc1.mccfl.edu/fl_maa/proceedings/2001/blue.pdf) (PDF). 34th
Annual Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America. MAA Florida Section. Archived
from the original (http://mcc1.mccfl.edu/fl_maa/proceedings/2001/blue.pdf) (PDF) on 29 May
2008. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
Phillips, Lee (26 May 2015). "The female mathematician who changed the course of
physics – but couldn't get a job" (https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/the-female-mathe
matician-who-changed-the-course-of-physics-but-couldnt-get-a-job/). Ars Technica.
California: Condé Nast. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
"Special Issue on Women in Mathematics" (https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/199109/19
9109FullIssue.pdf) (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 38 (7).
Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society: 701–773. September 1991. ISSN 0002-
9920 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0002-9920).
Shen, Qinna (September 2019). "A Refugee Scholar from Nazi Germany: Emmy Noether
and Bryn Mawr College" (https://repository.brynmawr.edu/german_pubs/19/). The
Mathematical Intelligencer. 41 (3): 52–65. doi:10.1007/s00283-018-9852-0 (https://doi.org/1
0.1007%2Fs00283-018-9852-0). S2CID 128009850 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/Corpus
ID:128009850).

Online biographies
Byers, Nina (16 March 2001), "Emmy Noether", Contributions of 20th Century Women to
Physics (http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/Phase2/Noether,[email protected]),
UCLA, archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20080212093356/http://cwp.library.ucla.edu/P
hase2/Noether,[email protected]) from the original on 12 February 2008,
retrieved 27 January 2024.
Taylor, Mandie (22 February 2023), "Emmy Noether", Biographies of Women
Mathematicians (http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/noether.htm), Agnes Scott
 College, retrieved 27 January 2024.

External links
Emmy Noether (https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=6967) at the Mathematics Genealogy
Project
Emmy Noether (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00025bw) on In Our Time at the BBC
Noether's application for admission to the University of Erlangen and three of her curriculum
vitae (https://web.archive.org/web/20070929100418/http://www.physikerinnen.de/noetherleb
enslauf.html) from the website of historian Cordula Tollmien
Letter by Noether to Dr. Park, Bryn Mawr College President (https://triarte.brynmawr.edu/obj
ects-1/info/188672) – Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections
Photograph of Noether taken by Hanna Kunsch (https://triarte.brynmawr.edu/objects-1/info/1
88671) – Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections
Photographs of Noether (https://owpdb.mfo.de/search?term=noether) – Oberwolfach Photo
Collection of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
Photographs of Noether's colleagues and acquaintances (https://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/b
stud/enmc.html) from the website of Clark Kimberling

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