Emmy Noether

In Our Time: Science

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4.5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, Emmy Noether. Noether’s Theorem is regarded as one of the most important mathematical theorems, influencing the evolution of modern physics. Born in 1882 in Bavaria, Noether studied mathematics at a time when women were generally denied the chance to pursue academic careers and, to get round objections, she spent four years lecturing under a male colleague’s name. In the 1930s she faced further objections to her teaching, as she was Jewish, and she left for the USA when the Nazis came to power. Her innovative ideas were to become widely recognised and she is now considered to be one of the founders of modern algebra. With Colva Roney Dougal Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews David Berman Professor in Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary, University of London Elizabeth Mansfield Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kent Producer: Simon Tillotson

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0:47.2	Hello Emmy Nurto was one of the great innovative mathematicians of the
0:51.0	20th century and her ideas have underpinned much in
0:54.0	modern physics and algebra. She has been greatly undervalued. She was born in
0:58.2	Germany in 1882 and with Nerta serum she showed scientists how to think about nature in a new way,
1:05.0	to build ideas such as those that led to the search for the Higgs boson.
1:09.0	She helped Einstein understand some of the issues in general relativity.
1:13.0	The Notice Theorem has been described as the cornerstone of modern subatomic physics.
1:18.0	She achieved so much, yet for years she was barred from teaching at universities as she was a woman.
1:23.6	And when she finally had a paid post, she was sacked from this under the Nazis as she was Jewish.
1:29.2	She died in exile in America in 1935 before her work was fully recognized.
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