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  • Emmy Noether

  • from Algebra and Number Theory
  • Edited by Marlow Anderson, Colorado College, Victor Katz, University of the District of Columbia, Robin Wilson, Open University
  • Book:
    Who Gave You the Epsilon?
    Published by:
    Mathematical Association of America
    Published online:
    26 October 2011
    Print publication:
    01 August 2009, pp 349-359

  • Summary

    The past two years have seen a surge of interest in Emmy Noether and her mathematics. Along with Auguste Dick's biography of her, listed below, Constance Reid's biography, Hilbert, frequently mentions Emmy Noether. New mathematics books, such as Introduction to the Calculus of Variations by Hans Sagan, and Commutative Rings by Irving Kaplansky, are spreading anew her methods, and the adjective “noetherian” abounds in titles to papers in mathematics research journals. The State University of New York at Buffalo has just set up a GeorgeWilliam Hill–Emmy Noether Fellowship. A high school textbook, Modern Introductory Analysis, by Dolciani, Donnelly, Jurgensen, and Wooten, devotes a page to Emmy Noether. And one finds such remarks in periodical literature as “The woman mathematician today is better off than Emmy Noether, who taught without pay. But …”.

    Despite all this recent interest, it is difficult to find much about Emmy Noether in mathematics history books. Although she was dubbed “der Noether” by P. S. Alexandroff, and that name with its masculine German article has stuck, she is given only a footnote in E.T.Bell's Men of Mathematics and hardly more in comparable books. In fact, little else can be found about her than three obituary addresses and the biography published just last year:

    1. Emmy Noether, by Hermann Weyl (memorial address at Bryn Mawr College, April 26, 1935), Scripta Mathematica 3 (1935), 201–220.

    2. Nachruf auf Emmy Noether, by B. L. van der Waerden (in German), Mathematische Annalen111 (1935), 469–476.

    3. Emmy Noether, by P. S. Alexandroff, address to the Moscow Mathematical Society, Sept. 5, 1935.

    4. Emmy Noether, by Auguste Dick (in German), Birkhäuser Verlag, 1970.

  • Twenty-one points on the nine-point circle

  • Clark Kimberling
  • Journal:
    The Mathematical Gazette / Volume 92 / Issue 523 / March 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 August 2016, pp. 29-38
    Print publication:
    March 2008

  • The nine points for which the nine-point circle is named are the vertices of three triangles: the medial, orthic, and Euler triangles of a reference triangle ABC. All nine of the vertices lie on the circle, which Dan Pedoe [1] proclaims ‘the first really exciting one to appear in any course on elementary geometry’. An online summary of properties of the circle, which is also called the Euler circle, is given at MathWorld [2].

  • The origin of Ferrers graphs

  • Clark Kimberling
  • Journal:
    The Mathematical Gazette / Volume 83 / Issue 497 / July 1999
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    01 August 2016, pp. 194-198
    Print publication:
    July 1999

  • Every year, thousands of students around the world encounter Ferrers graphs. Most of these students probably assume that Ferrers was a mathematician and that his name is among the hundreds at a well-known website specialising in mathematical biography. The first assumption is correct.

    Norman Macleod Ferrers was born 11 August 1829 in Gloucester. In 1851, he received a BA degree from Cambridge University, with honours. He was Senior Wrangler and winner of first prize in the Smith mathematics competition. He studied law and was called to the bar in 1855, but returned to Caius College in 1856 as a mathematical lecturer, and was ordained apriest in 1861.