NOETHER'S THEOREM -- Proved in 1915 and published in 1918.
Emmy Noether's contribution to modern physics is huge! Yet she has not been granted anything close to the acclaim given to so many others. Why is that? Because she was not a physicist? Because she was a woman? Am I wrong in seeing an anomaly here?
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Noether's theorem has become a fundamental tool of modern theoretical physics and the calculus of variations. <...> Noether's theorem is important, both because of the insight it gives into conservation laws, and also as a practical calculational tool. It allows investigators to determine the conserved quantities (invariants) from the observed symmetries of a physical system. Conversely, it allows researchers to consider whole classes of hypothetical Lagrangians with given invariants, to describe a physical system. |
Emmy Noether's contribution to modern physics is huge! Yet she has not been granted anything close to the acclaim given to so many others. Why is that? Because she was not a physicist? Because she was a woman? Am I wrong in seeing an anomaly here?
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