Emmy Noether
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.
Guests
-
Colva Roney Dougal No other episodes
Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews - David Berman
2 episodes
Professor in Theoretical Physics at Queen Mary, University of London -
Elizabeth Mansfield No other episodes
Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kent
Reading list
-
Emmy Noether: A Tribute to Her Life and Work
James W. Brewer and Martha K. Smith (eds.) (Marcel Dekker, 1981) -
Emmy Noether 1882-1935
Auguste Dick (trans. H. I. Blocher) (Birkhauser, 1981) Google Books → -
A History of Abstract Algebra
Israel Kleiner (Birkhauser, 2007) Google Books → -
The Noether Theorems: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Twentieth Century
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach (trans. Bertram E. Schwarzbach) (Springer, 2010) Google Books → -
Symmetry and the Beautiful Universe
Leon M. Lederman and Christopher T. Hill (Prometheus Books, 2008) Google Books → -
Emmy Noether's Wonderful Theorem
D. E. Neuenschwander (JHU Press, 2010) Google Books → -
Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics
A. Zee (Princeton University Press, 2016) Google Books →
Related episodes
-
Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems
9 Oct, 2008 510 Mathematics -
Mathematics’ Unintended Consequences
11 Feb, 2010 510 Mathematics -
Fermat’s Last Theorem
25 Oct, 2012 510 Mathematics -
Emilie du Châtelet
4 Feb, 2021 510 Mathematics -
Maths in the Early Islamic World
16 Feb, 2017 510 Mathematics -
Carl Friedrich Gauss
30 Apr, 2020 510 Mathematics -
Paul Dirac
5 Mar, 2020 530 Physics -
Pythagoras
10 Dec, 2009 510 Mathematics -
Calculus
24 Sep, 2009 510 Mathematics -
Euclid’s Elements
28 Apr, 2016 510 Mathematics -
Mathematics
6 May, 1999 510 Mathematics -
Bertrand Russell
6 Dec, 2012 190 Modern Western Philosophy -
Renaissance Maths
2 Jun, 2005 510 Mathematics -
Imaginary Numbers
23 Sep, 2010 510 Mathematics -
e
25 Sep, 2014 510 Mathematics -
Alan Turing
15 Oct, 2020 510 Mathematics -
Mathematics and Platonism
11 Jan, 2001 510 Mathematics -
Relativity
6 Jun, 2013 530 Physics -
Maxwell
2 Oct, 2003 530 Physics -
Johannes Kepler
29 Dec, 2016 520 Astronomy
Programme ID: m00025bw
Episode page: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00025bw
Auto-category: 510 (Mathematics)