Einstein's Mentor: How Emmy Noether Invented Modern Physics

Emmy Noether was born into a family of mathematicians and was fascinated by science from a young age. Against all odds, she became a scholar and achieved unprecedented heights in her profession. She was undeterred by the prejudices and discrimination... she faced throughout her life as a woman and a Jew—her passion for science overshadowed everything else. When Albert Einstein arrived at the University of Göttingen, it was Emmy Noether who introduced him to the world of abstract algebra, without which the famous theory of relativity would have been impossible. In her theorem, she elegantly proved the fundamental connection between symmetry and conservation laws. This book is a tribute to Noether's resilience and genius, which inspire women in science a century later.
«Emmy Noether dedicated her life to the study of pure mathematics, although she faced a number of brutal injustices arising solely from the fact that she was a woman. She wanted to study mathematics at university, but women were not allowed to enroll. She went to work at the university at the invitation of the greatest mathematician in the world—but did not receive a staff position or any salary. She became one of the first victims of the Nazi purges of university staff, as she was both a woman and a Jew. If a century later we were somehow able to hear Noether's voice, we would not hear complaints of lamentation. Instead, we would hear the loud laughter that her compatriots often described» (Lee Phillips).