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Not many, but a few. Gender aside, nobody would think of Emmy Noether as anything less than one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived.
by j2kun 13y ago
Not many, but a few. Gender aside, nobody would think of Emmy Noether as anything less than one of the greatest mathematicians who ever lived.
- claudius 13y agoUnless, of course, you consider her a physicist and those as less than mathematicians…
- magicalist 13y agoI'll happily look down on applied mathematics, but classifying Emmy Noether as only a physicist would be ridiculous, as a large part of her life's work was indeed pure mathematics. I can't imagine the abuse of history needed to assert otherwise. And remember, even Hardy, most famous of the Purists, often slummed it with (hold your nose) physicists and on a few occasions even with (the horror) biologists.