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Emmy Noether: The First Women In Mathematics

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Professor Delia For a long time, the only people studying mathematics or anything really was men, up until the year 350 or so. When the first women in mathematics appeared that changed and she was named Hypatia. The role of women in mathematics has since changed and grown as more and more women began studying it. Women haven’t always been able to go to school and study which is why women today are lucky that such rules have been done with or they could still be stuck in old ways. Thanks to women like Emmy Noether, Sofia Kovalevskaya, Sophie Germain, Ada Lovelace, and Hypatia; we’ve been able to come a long way in mathematics. Many advancements in mathematics have been thanks to those women and …show more content…

Not only were women not allowed to go to college and study, they weren’t supposed to be doing much but being in the house doing work during that time period. Even with these obstacles these women still managed to become great and successful in a subject they weren’t supposed to really know about.u,
Emmy Noether is the first women we will be discussing in the advancements in mathematics. She lived in Germany from born on March twenty third 1882 and died 1935 when she died from surgical complications. Her father was Max Noether who was a mathematician professor. Noether faced many challenges growing up and aspiring to study mathematics/science because in Germany women were not allowed to have jobs or get an education in those areas at the time. Women were not allowed to go to college during that time so it took her much longer to get to the point of recognition she has now because of such issues. Because of this …show more content…

As a young girl she was always in her fathers study and would read lecture notes for mathematics. She met a man named Joseph-Louis Lagrange who supported her and helped her for many years in her pursuit of education. He had received some of her work anonymously and was surprised to find out that she was a women and chose to help her anyways. She began studying geometry and taught herself Latin and Greek to be able to read classic works. She was unable to go to college because she was a woman and because she was middle class so she started talking to professors in Germany to see if they would work with her. Fortunately, that worked In her favor and she started working with these professors on theories and ideas. She started searching for a new mentor and while this happened the French Academy held a contest to explain the underlying mathematical law. Her work at the time was not the best because of her lack of education and lack of opportunities offered to male mathematicians at the time which caused her to lose the contest. She was determined to become better and studied more on her presentation of her work, her mentor Lagrange was able to help her fix her mistakes and improve. She entered the contest again and got an honorable mention this time which was a big feat for a woman to do in this time period. She later entered

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