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if we are talking about female mathematicians don't forget Emmy Noether: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether
by wolfi1 7y ago
if we are talking about female mathematicians don't forget Emmy Noether: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether
- Koshkin 7y agoWe are talking about a migrant Jewish female mathematician who was discriminated against trying to start a career in the USA in mid-1940s.
- wolfi1 7y agoEmmy Noether had a comparable background and had her problems with academia, too
- Gondolin 7y agoYes, Emmy Noether was a pure genius (one of the greatest mathematician of all time), and was never named full professor (even though she had Hilbert support).
- oefrha 7y agoWho did not reshape mathematics, unlike Emmy Noether.
- fmajid 7y agoYes. When I read the headline, I thought it was going to be about Noether. Even then, I'd argue she reshaped physics, not mathematics itself, unlike, say, Galois or Gödel.
- pixelpoet 7y agoShe's one of the few true aliens I regard as up there with von Neumann and Einstein, who have some kind of ridiculous direct line of communication with the fabric of reality.
- growlist 7y agoYou're doing a bit of a disservice to Newton and Maxwell there, surely. And lots of Einstein's work was derivative of others.
- fmajid 7y agoSpecial Relativity was completely ripped off from Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz (but then they were not German and the physics establishment was dominated by Germans at the time). Einstein's 1921 Nobel prize pointedly ignores Relativity and was awarded for his work on the photoelectric effect, a backhanded slap if there were none.