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Who is Emmy Noether & Why Have You Never Heard of Her?
March 23 @ 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Free
WHO IS EMMY NOETHER & WHY HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF HER?
Trail Guide: Tagline – a.k.a. Robert Hendrix
Did you know that Saturday March 23rd, 2024 is World Maths Day? A tradition since 2007, millions of students from 240 countries and territories around the world are participating. 
Quite appropriately, that date also happens to be the birthday of one of the greatest mathematicians in human history, Amalie Emmy Noether, PhD (pronounced NOY-ter). Furthermore, Dr. Noether is widely considered to be the number one, greatest female mathematician in the history of mathematics.
So why do you not know about her already?
Emmy Noether was the “go to” person for other scientific geniuses for her depth of understanding of INVARIANCE, and is known for having “put it all together” with her deep, encompassing concepts in modern ABSTRACT ALGEBRA, particularly with regard to Noether Rings and Modules, as well as
NON-COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRAS, in which ORDER MATTERS IN MULTIPLICATION OF PAIRS OF ELEMENTS, i.e.,
A x C ≠ C x A
Aside from her seminal, creative work in the foundations of modern mathematics, Dr. Noether also developed FUNDAMENTAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO FIRST and SECOND NOETHER THEOREMS of MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS in which she shared her deep insights into the natural universe by proving the equivalence of CONSERVATION LAWS with inherent SYMMETRY in Space and / or Time. This has provided a powerful tool to physics right up to quantum dynamics and current work on SUPERSYMMETRY.
We will discuss these intellectual achievements by a general, heuristic approach. And we will explore her life to better understand where such extraordinarily creative humans come from and how they are sometimes capable of pervasive impacts on the world, even in the worst of circumstances.
Finally, we will discuss the first great woman ever of mathematical history, Hypatia. As one of the last great thinkers of ancient Alexandria, Hypatia studied and taught mathematics, astronomy, and
Neoplatonist philosophy. Hypatia is credited with the invention of the Astrolabe as an astronomical instrument.
In 380 CE, Christianity was proclaimed the official state religion of the Roman Empire. Though Hypatia was very popular among the people of Alexandria, she was regarded as a heretical pagan by zealots of the early church. In March 415 CE, a mob of Christian monks under direction of Bishop Cyrus of Alexandria attacked Hypatia, dragged her into a church and brutally tortured and murdered her.
Hypatia was the last of the Alexandria school of philosophy. Her death was an ominous setback for progress in civilization. Subsequently, the decaying western Roman Empire fell in 476 CE, and the stagnation of Dark Ages began in Europe.
WORLD MATHS DAY Saturday 23. March 2024