Emmy Noether’s theorem about symmetry is still contributing to modern physics Shutterstock/okanakdeniz
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Chances are, you have never heard of Emmy Noether. But you should have. In an obituary that ran in The New York Times in 1935, Albert Einstein wrote: “In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the…
