Emmy Noether
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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.
David Hilbert
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David Hilbert was a German mathematician and philosopher of mathematics and one of the most influential mathematicians of all time.
Emmy Noether
…worked at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen without pay for seven years. At the time, women were largely excluded from academic positions. In 1915, David Hilbert and Felix Klein invited her to join the mathematics department at the University of Göttingen, a world-renowned center of mathematical research. The…
Hilbert in 1912
Hilbert in 1886
Hilbert in 1907
The Mathematical Institute in Göttingen. Its new building, constructed with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation, was opened by Hilbert and Courant in 1930.