Amalie Emmy Noether was born on March 23, 1882 in Erlangen, Germany. In her late life, she had underwent surgery to remove a pelvic tumor, but died from a post-operative infection on April 14, 1935. Noether was 83 years old when she died in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
Max Noether and Ida Amalie Kaufmann were the parents of Emmy, along with her three brothers: Friedrich (Fritz), Gustav Robert, and Alfred Noether. During her childhood, Noether did not stand out academically and, being female, was not allowed to attend a college preparatory school. Instead, she went to a finishing school and specialized in languages. Years later, she took classes at the University of Erlangen for two years, then joined the University of Göttingen. Afterward, she went back to the University of Erlangen and earned her doctorate degree in 1907 and received a Ph. D in mathematics. …show more content…
In 1915, she was invited to join the mathematics department at the University of Göttingen by Felix Klein and David Hilbert. She taught here for four years, despite the criticism she was given for working there. In 1919, she was given the title ‘Privatdozent’, which allowed her to teach and be paid. However, she did not receive pay until she became an associate professor in 1922. Being a woman and a Jew, she was paid a minimal amount of money and was not given the status of a professor. In 1929, Emmy Noether was welcomed to the University of Moscow as a guest lecturer. She was a member of the Göttingen University mathematics department until 1933. This was when the Nazis took over and she was unable to continue teaching in Germany. In 1933, Noether moved to the United States and continued her teachings at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania as a guest professor. Here, she was paid a full salary and accepted as a proper part of the staff. In the U.S., she also taught at the Institute of Advanced Study at