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1 Diving into Math with Emmy Noether |
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1.1 Emmy Noether's Timeline |
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2 | (4) |
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1.2 Four Mathematicians from Noether's Circle |
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6 | (2) |
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1.3 Name Dropping: A Who's Who |
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8 | (5) |
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2 Emmy Noether: a Portrait |
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13 | (28) |
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15 | (11) |
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2.2 Modern Algebra and the Noether School |
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26 | (11) |
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37 | (4) |
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3 Max and Emmy Noether: Mathematics in Erlangen |
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41 | (26) |
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3.1 Max Noether's early Career |
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42 | (4) |
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3.2 Academic Antisemitism |
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46 | (9) |
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3.3 Emmy Noether's Uphill Climb |
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55 | (6) |
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3.4 Classical vs. Modern Invariant Theory |
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61 | (3) |
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3.5 Max Noether's Career in Retrospect |
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64 | (3) |
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4 Emmy Noether's Long Struggle to Habilitate in Gottingen |
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67 | (16) |
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4.1 Habilitation as the Last Hurdle |
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67 | (4) |
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4.2 Noether's Attempt to Habilitate |
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71 | (12) |
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5 Noether's Early Contributions to Modern Algebra |
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83 | (18) |
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5.1 On the Rise of Abstract Algebra |
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83 | (1) |
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5.2 Van der Waerden in Gottingen |
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84 | (6) |
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5.3 Pavel Alexandrov and Pavel Urysohn |
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90 | (3) |
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5.4 Urysohn's Tragic Death |
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93 | (2) |
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5.5 Helping a Needy Friend |
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95 | (6) |
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6 Noether's International School in Modern Algebra |
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101 | (22) |
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6.1 Mathematics at "The Klie" |
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101 | (4) |
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6.2 The Takagi Connection |
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105 | (2) |
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6.3 Bologna ICM and Semester in Moscow |
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107 | (3) |
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6.4 Helmut Hasse and the Marburg Connection |
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110 | (2) |
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6.5 Takagi and Class Field Theory |
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112 | (2) |
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6.6 Collaboration with Hasse and Brauer |
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114 | (3) |
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6.7 Noether's "Wish List" for Favorite Foreigners |
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117 | (4) |
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6.8 Paul Dubreil and the French Connection |
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121 | (2) |
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7 Emmy Noether's Triumphal Years |
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123 | (28) |
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7.1 The Marburg "Schiefkongress" |
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123 | (3) |
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7.2 Rockefeller and the IEB Program |
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126 | (3) |
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7.3 Birth of the Brauer-Hasse-Noether Theorem |
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129 | (6) |
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7.4 Editing the Works of Dedekind and Hilbert |
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135 | (5) |
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7.5 Olga Taussky on Hilbert's 70th Birthday |
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140 | (5) |
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145 | (6) |
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8 Cast out of her Country |
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151 | (22) |
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8.1 Dark Clouds over Gottingen |
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151 | (5) |
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8.2 First Wave of Dismissals |
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156 | (3) |
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8.3 Hasse's Campaign for Noether |
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159 | (14) |
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9 Emmy Noether in Bryn Mawr |
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173 | (42) |
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9.1 Bryn Mawr College and Algebra in the United States |
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173 | (5) |
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9.2 Emmy Noether's New Home |
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178 | (8) |
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9.3 Emmy's Efforts on behalf of Fritz Noether |
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186 | (8) |
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9.4 Last Visit in Gottingen |
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194 | (6) |
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9.5 Lecturer at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study |
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200 | (9) |
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9.6 Emmy Noether's Tragic Death |
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209 | (6) |
| Bibliography |
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215 | (19) |
| Name Index |
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