Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics
by wolfi1 on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:44AM
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if we are talking about female mathematicians don't forget Emmy Noether: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether
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Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics
by pixelpoet on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:23AM
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She's one of the few true aliens I regard as up there with von Neumann and Einstein, who have some kind of ridiculous direct line of communication with the fabric of reality.
Re:Hilda Geiringer Reshaped Mathematics
by growlist on Friday November 01, 2019 @09:54AM
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You're doing a bit of a disservice to Newton and Maxwell there, surely. And lots of Einstein's work was derivative of others.
Special Relativity was completely ripped off from Henri Poincaré and Hendrik Lorentz (but then they were not German and the physics establishment was dominated by Germans at the time).
Einstein's 1921 Nobel prize pointedly ignores Relativity and was awarded for his work on the photoelectric effect, a backhanded slap if there were none.
We are talking about a migrant Jewish female mathematician who was discriminated against trying to start a career in the USA in mid-1940s.
Who did not reshape mathematics, unlike Emmy Noether.
Yes. When I read the headline, I thought it was going to be about Noether. Even then, I'd argue she reshaped physics, not mathematics itself, unlike, say, Galois or Gödel.
Emmy Noether had a comparable background and had her problems with academia, too