Emmy Noether, the Most Significant Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of
Joyce Park stashed this in History
Source: NYTimes.com
Stashed in: Women, Time, Joo, History!, Math!, History of Tech!, Extraordinary People, Girls Who Code, Grace Hopper, Women in Tech
"She invented a theorem that united with magisterial concision two conceptual pillars of physics: symmetry in nature and the universal laws of conservation."
"Noether’s theorem shows that a symmetry of time — like the fact that whether you throw a ball in the air tomorrow or make the same toss next week will have no effect on the ball’s trajectory — is directly related to the conservation of energy, our old homily that energy can be neither created nor destroyed but merely changes form."
I love when PandaWhale shows me something from years ago that I get to enjoy all over again.
Emmy's story is one such story.Â
I'm putting this page in my Grace Hopper stash as a reminder that many people helped us get to where we are. Grace and Emmy are two of them.Â
7:16 AM Mar 28 2012