Proving It Her Way: Emmy Noether, a Life in Mathematics [1st ed. 2020] 3030628108, 9783030628109

Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Diving into Math with Emmy Noether
1.1 Emmy Noether’s Timeline
1.2 Four Mathematicians from Noether’s Circle
1.3 Name Dropping: A Who’s Who
Chapter 2 Emmy Noether: a Portrait
2.1 Biographical Aspects
2.2 Modern Algebra and the Noether School
2.3 Belated Recognition
Chapter 3 Max and Emmy Noether: Mathematics in Erlangen
3.1 Max Noether’s early Career
3.2 Academic Antisemitism
3.3 Emmy Noether’s Uphill Climb
3.4 Classical vs. Modern Invariant Theory
3.5 Max Noether’s Career in Retrospect
Chapter 4 Emmy Noether’s Long Struggle to Habilitate in Göttingen
4.1 Habilitation as the Last Hurdle
4.2 Noether’s Attempt to Habilitate
Chapter 5 Noether’s Early Contributions to Modern Algebra
5.1 On the Rise of Abstract Algebra
5.2 Van der Waerden in Göttingen
5.3 Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn
5.4 Urysohn’s Tragic Death
5.5 Helping a Needy Friend
Chapter 6 Noether’s International School in Modern Algebra
6.1 Mathematics at “The Klie”
6.2 The Takagi Connection
6.3 Bologna ICM and Semester in Moscow
6.4 Helmut Hasse and the Marburg Connection
6.5 Takagi and Class Field Theory
6.6 Collaboration with Hasse and Brauer
6.7 Noether’s “Wish List” for Favorite Foreigners
6.8 Paul Dubreil and the French Connection
Chapter 7 Emmy Noether’s Triumphal Years
7.1 The Marburg “Schiefkongress”
7.2 Rockefeller and the IEB Program
7.3 Birth of the Brauer-Hasse-Noether Theorem
7.4 Editing the Works of Dedekind and Hilbert
7.5 Olga Taussky on Hilbert’s 70th Birthday
7.6 Zurich ICM in 1932
Chapter 8 Cast out of her Country
8.1 Dark Clouds over Göttingen
8.2 First Wave of Dismissals
8.3 Hasse’s Campaign for Noether
Chapter 9 Emmy Noether in Bryn Mawr
9.1 Bryn Mawr College and Algebra in the United States
9.2 Emmy Noether’s New Home
9.3 Emmy’s Efforts on behalf of Fritz Noether
9.4 Last Visit in Göttingen
9.5 Lecturer at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study
9.6 Emmy Noether’s Tragic Death
Bibliography
Name Index

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