Skip Navigation You Are Here ENC Home This Week Classroom Calendar Advanced ... Ask ENC Explore online lesson plans, student activities, and teacher learning tools. Find detailed information about thousands of materials for K-12 math and science. Read articles about inquiry, equity, and other key topics for educators and parents. Create your learning plan, read the standards, and find tips for getting grants. Emmy Noether (Grades 8-12+) March 23 Noether won the Alfred Ackermann-Teubner Memorial Prize for the Advancement of Mathematical Knowledge in 1932. As is common practice in honoring important mathematicians, a crater on the moon is named after her. In the judgement of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. Albert Einstein, letter to the New York Times , May 4, 1935 The eldest child and only daughter of noted mathematician Max Noether, Amalie "Emmy" Noether was born in Erlangen, Germany, on March 23, 1882. Noether, along with her three brothers, grew up in a house where education was valued. As was the custom of the day for those girls who received an education, Noether attended a finishing school for girls, since girls were not allowed to attend college preparatory schools. She studied English, French, arithmetic, and piano, originally with the goal of becoming a language teacher. Although by 1900 she had become certified to teach French and English in schools for girls, Noether decided she wanted to attend the university and study mathematics. However, just as females were not allowed to attend college preparatory schools at that time, they were not allowed to enroll officially in universities. Noether got around this roadblock by obtaining special permission from individual professors to audit classes at the University of Erlangen, where her father taught. At one point, she was one of two women in the entire university. In 1903 she went to study at the University of Gottingen. She returned to Erlangen in 1904 when she was finally admitted to the university there. She received her Ph.D. summa cum laude in 1907 with her thesis on algebraic invariants. | |
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