Talk:Emmy Noether
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[edit]Leaving notes here as they come up. Haven't found a citation for §University of Erlangen: "In 1910 and 1911 she published an extension of her thesis work from three variables to n variables", but Dick p. 20 could at least support her giving a lecture to the DMV on the topic in 1909. Rowe 2021 talks a bit abstractly about her work during this period on that topic. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 22:11, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thank you for working on the article. I don't have a book citation for what you're looking for but the paper for this work can be found in the article Emmy Noether bibliography.
- The external links for the 1910 announcement of the paper is this this (pp. 101-104). The link for the 1911 paper is this (pp. 118–154). Sgubaldo (talk) 22:24, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
- I'm still hopeful to find a secondary source mention, but that's a good backup. Wouldn't add them myself, since the German is a bit outside my capabilities. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 01:58, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
- Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Yvette; Schwarzbach, Bertram E. (2011). The Noether Theorems: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Twentieth Century. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. New York: Springer. p. 44. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-87868-3. ISBN 9780387878683.
In her next article, 'On the theory of invariants of forms of n variables' [1911], which had been announced the year before its publication (Noether [1910]), she extended the arguments of her thesis to the case of forms in n variables.
—David Eppstein (talk) 02:22, 10 March 2024 (UTC)- Looks great. Thanks! Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 02:44, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
- Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Yvette; Schwarzbach, Bertram E. (2011). The Noether Theorems: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Twentieth Century. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. New York: Springer. p. 44. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-87868-3. ISBN 9780387878683.
- I'm still hopeful to find a secondary source mention, but that's a good backup. Wouldn't add them myself, since the German is a bit outside my capabilities. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 01:58, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
No luck yet on the "This phase marks the beginning ..." tag in §University of Erlangen, but Dick and Rowe at least seem to dance around it, and I could probably come up with a solidly sourced similar phrase. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 03:47, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
I went through Rowe 2021, Rowe & Koreuber 2020, Dick 1981 to try and find a source for the phrase 'Her family paid for her room and board and supported her academic work' but couldn't find anything. There's plenty showcasing how she wasn't paid until 1923 but nothing specifically on her family financially supporting her. I finally found something in Page 99 of Emmy Noether: The Mother of Modern Algebra by Margaret B. W. Tent. I'm a little wary of using it a source, however, as it's aimed at young teenagers and the author creatively makes up conversations between historical figures. Does anyone know of a better source or would it be better to just remove the statement entirely? Sgubaldo (talk) 19:46, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
- I'd be content with removing that. We can always restore it if a source turns up that is less marginal. XOR'easter (talk) 21:53, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
Hilbert responded with indignation, supposedly
[edit]The current article has a sentence starting
- Hilbert responded with indignation, supposedly...
with a footnote undermining the quotation. If the quotation is not reliable it should not be used; if it is reliable it should not be qualified in a footnote. The exchange can be summarized rather than quoted if that is all the references support. Johnjbarton (talk) 04:00, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- The Hilbert quotation in its current form is only used by Kimberling's source. The rest quote a slightly different statement and/or say that the bathhouse quote (which was first told by Weyl in his memorial address) hasn't been authenticated.
- It could be changed to something like: "Hilbert, who believed Noether's qualifications was the only important issue and that the sex of the candidate was irrelevant, objected with indignation and scolded those protesting her habilitation.[1][2]"?
- Perhaps with "His objection is often said to have included the remark "After all, we are a university, not a bathhouse.",[3][4] though the utterance of this statement has not been authenticated.[2][5]" in a footnote.
- Sgubaldo (talk) 10:26, 25 April 2024 (UTC) Sgubaldo (talk) 10:26, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- I tried a rewrite along those lines. It's too famous a quip to be omitted entirely. XOR'easter (talk) 20:13, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- I agree. Thank you for the rewrite. Sgubaldo (talk) 20:47, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
- excellent thanks. Done Johnjbarton (talk) 04:25, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
- I tried a rewrite along those lines. It's too famous a quip to be omitted entirely. XOR'easter (talk) 20:13, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
Reference to algebraic variety?
[edit]@XOR'easter: § Contributions to mathematics and physics contained the text and the algebraic varieties
, removed by permalink/1254174065. Could that have been a typo for and the algebraic invariants
? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:12, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- Maybe. Feel free to rework that sentence if you so desire. XOR'easter (talk) 23:04, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
Block quote in Emmy Noether#Background on abstract algebra and begriffliche Mathematik (conceptual mathematics)?
[edit]I was going to add a footnote[a] to in § Background on abstract algebra and begriffliche Mathematik (conceptual mathematics) and realized that there is a block quote with two[6][7] citations. Which is correct? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 13:42, 1 November 2024 (UTC)
Notes
- ^ The nomenclature differs anong authors.
References
- ^ Rowe & Koreuber 2020, pp. 75–76.
- ^ a b Dick 1981, p. 32.
- ^ Kimberling 1981, p. 14.
- ^ Weyl 1935.
- ^ Rowe & Koreuber 2020, p. 75.
- ^ Stewart 2015, p. 183.
- ^ Gowers et al. 2008, p. 284.
Weyl obituary
[edit]In 1935, Hermann Weyl subnitted an obituary to the New York Times, which they refused to print on the grounds that nobody had ever heard of him. There is an apocryphal story that Albert Einstein's "In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians," was a slap at the NYT for being ignorant of Weyl's prominence. If there is an online copy og Weyl's obituary of Emma, I believe that it would be appropriate to cite it and quote a couple of paragraphs. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 10:29, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
- Page 263 of Rowe, 2021 says
- There is another reason to entertain these speculations, and this concerns the obituary article that appeared in the New York Times on May 5, 1935, signed by Einstein. An oft-repeated story about this piece is that the author was actually Hermann Weyl, but since the journalists who handled these matters had never heard of him, they asked for something from his super-famous IAS colleague. Such stories are usually difficult to refute, and something like this may well have happened. But in this particular instance, surviving textual evidence makes clear that Einstein wrote the obituary in question, or to be more precise, he drafted a German text (Fig. 9.2), which served as the basis for the published obituary. Since it appeared rather late, some three weeks after Noether’s death, it seems entirely plausible that Weyl might have submitted an obituary to the New York Times, only to have it rejected.
- Sgubaldo (talk) 17:15, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
Unnecessary Background Section
[edit]What is the rationale for having the long section named "Background on abstract algebra and begriffliche Mathematik (conceptual mathematics)"? I do not understand why the overview of abstract algebra is necessary in this article.
The bullet points defining groups and rings seem particularly silly, since one can get better information about groups or rings by clicking the link to the corresponding article and reading the first paragraph or so. Homogeneous Cow (talk) 04:31, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
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