The Theories of Emmy Noether

            Renowned by her colleagues for her contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, Emmy Noether, is often recognized as the most creative abstract algebraist of modern times.2 Although she was born during a grave time in the history of our world, she didn't let that get in the way of her research, it is said she even published groundbreaking papers under a mans name3. .
             Born March 23, 1882, in Erlangen, Germany Emmy Noether had a very unexceptional childhood, going to school, learning domestic skills, and taking piano lessons. Living during the rise of the Nazi's, girls were not able to attend college preparatory schools, instead Emmy attended the Städtischen Höheren Töchterschule4, Girl's secondary school, studying arithmetic and languages.She soon passed the state examinations and became certified to teach foreign languages at female education institutes. Emmy instead decided to pursue her love of arithmetic as an audit student at the nearby university, Erlangen University. Due to the fact of her gender and her Jewish religious beliefs, she wasn't actually able to enroll as a normal student but despite this she eventually graduated with a PhD summa cum laude5. In 1915, Emmy moved to Göttingen where she received a license, but she wouldn't be getting paid. As World War I progressed and the power of the nazis grew, many great mathematicians and scientists were thrown out of there jobs, sadly Emmy was one of these people. She received many invitations to universities outside of Germany, most notably Oxford in England and Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania. She eagerly accepted the invitation from Bryn Mawr. For the first time in her life Emmy Noether was surrounded by female cobrlleagues as well as students. Although it can be said that these last years in the United States might have been the happiest years of her life, they were soon cut short. At the age of fifty-three doctors found an ovarian tumor.