Event time:
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 10:45am to 12:00pm
Location:
215LOM
Speaker:
Colin McLarty
Speaker affiliation:
Case Western University
Event description:
Emmy Noether stood out as gifted from the start of her work in mathematics. She became famous for work in Göttingen on conservation theorems in mathematical physics and especially on commutative algebra. But her first great work was a tiny paper in 1916, when she was 34, written after she was invited to Göttingen but before she got there. Often seen as a step into Hilbert-style
algebra, it is actually much more. It retains the
symbolic-algorithmic influence of her doctoral teacher Paul Gordan.
It presages her true signature in algebra which went far beyond both Gordan’s formalism and Hilbert’s axiomatics by synthesizing the two.