Emmy Noether
Noether's theorem linking symmetry and conservation laws
Most quoted
"The development of abstract algebra, which is one of the most characteristic features of mathematics today, is the inevitable outcome of the historical evolution of our science."
— from Attributed from lectures
"My work is not about finding solutions to specific problems, but about developing general theories that can be applied to many problems."
"For all that, I should like to thank the founder of the theory, Herr Dedekind; his trend of thought has affected the above developments."
— from Paper: 'Abstrakter Aufbau der Idealtheorie in algebraischen Zahl- und Funktionenkörpern', 1927
All quotes by Emmy Noether (640)
The Jacobson radical tames the wild elements.
I laugh at obstacles; they are just non-principal ideals.
From Erlangen to Göttingen, my path was algebra.
Conservation of energy is but one instance of variational invariance.
Women mathematicians? We are the future.
The spectrum of a ring visualizes its primes.
My health fades, but my mind races with proofs.
Abstraction is liberation from the concrete.
In hypercomplex numbers, multiplication defies commutativity.
Teichmüller's ideas extend my ring theory.
Life's meaning? To discover and share truth.
The Noether normalization lemma simplifies varieties.
I am no lady; I am a mathematician.
Invariants preserve the essence under transformation.
From Germany to America, math unites us all.
Modules over PIDs are direct sums of cyclics.
Genius is persistence in the face of absurdity.
The center of a ring is its commutative heart.
My theorem on symmetries changed physics forever.
Forget the past; solve the next problem.
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