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Emmy Noether

1882 - 1935

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Amalie Emmy Noether (US: , UK: ; German: [ˈnøːtɐ]; 23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. She was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emmy Noether has received more than 2,022,679 page views. Her biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Emmy Noether is the 39th most popular mathematician (up from 43rd in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Germany (down from 186th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Mathematician.

Emmy Noether is most famous for her contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics. She was the first woman to be awarded a full professorship at the University of Göttingen in Germany.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Emmy Noether ranks 39 out of 1,004. Before her are Georg Cantor, Ada Lovelace, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Kurt Gödel, and Johann Bernoulli. After her are Pope Sylvester II, Gottlob Frege, George Boole, Charles Sanders Peirce, Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, and Maria Gaetana Agnesi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Emmy Noether ranks 11. Before her are Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Wilhelm Keitel, Georges Braque, Max Born, Sigrid Undset, and Georgi Dimitrov. After her are Abdullah I of Jordan, Ion Antonescu, Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Günther von Kluge, Kurt von Schleicher, and Abd el-Krim. Among people deceased in 1935, Emmy Noether ranks 8. Before her are Alfred Dreyfus, Kazimir Malevich, T. E. Lawrence, Józef Piłsudski, Fernando Pessoa, and Paul Signac. After her are Arthur Henderson, Alban Berg, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Astrid of Sweden, André Citroën, and Carlos Gardel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Emmy Noether ranks 187 out of 7,253. Before her are Erich Raeder (1876), Frederick William II of Prussia (1744), Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729), Christian I of Denmark (1426), Hans Frank (1900), and Baron d'Holbach (1723). After her are Augustus III of Poland (1696), Anne of Cleves (1515), Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (955), Emil Fischer (1852), Oswald Spengler (1880), and Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1282).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Germany

Among mathematicians born in Germany, Emmy Noether ranks 5. Before her are Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646), Bernhard Riemann (1826), and Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805). After her are Gottlob Frege (1848), Karl Weierstrass (1815), August Ferdinand Möbius (1790), Friedrich Bessel (1784), Ludolph van Ceulen (1540), Richard Dedekind (1831), and Alexander Grothendieck (1928).

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