Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra and mathematical physics. Noether was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieu
Noether c. 1900–1910
Noether grew up in the Bavarian city of Erlangen, depicted here in a 1916 postcard.
Emmy Noether with her brothers Alfred, Fritz, and Robert, before 1918
Paul Gordan supervised Noether's doctoral dissertation on invariants of biquadratic forms.