Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦Dec 17, 2022
OK, here’s an idea I want to try. Without looking it up on the Internet anywhere, just off the top of your head, do you know who Emmy Noether is? You can look her up after answering, but don’t post the answer till the poll is over! Please boost for more numbers. #women
Never heard of her
67.2%
Heard the name but not sure who she is
10.3%
I know who she is
22.5%
Poll ended at .
Show threadWilliam Gillis 🏴

@dgoldsmith

I've known mathematicians who were relatively ignorant of her, but every physicist I know worships her.

Dec 17, 2022 at 10:13pmWeb
Show threadLieberoDec 17, 2022
@dgoldsmith @rechelon I heard about her first in mathematics studies
Show threadalapiteDec 18, 2022
@rechelon @dgoldsmith Any mathematician who has taken a few undergraduate algebra classes ought to have heard of her. Noetherian rings are hardly exotic.
Show threadAndreaDec 18, 2022
@rechelon @dgoldsmith ...where in heck did you find mathematicians who didn't know the isomorphism theorems?
Show threadColin the MathmoDec 18, 2022

@andrea Not all mathematicians study Abstract Algebra to that level. You can do logic, combinatorics, graph theory, real and complex analysis, topology, and more, all without meeting the isomorphism theorems.

I knew of Noetherian Rings, but had no idea why they were useful, important, or worthy of a name. I only learned of "Noether the person" and her body of work much later.

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