To Albert Einstein, she was
“the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far
produced since the higher education of women began.” More
straightforward in his praise, Einstein’s fellow Professor at the
Institute for Advanced Study, Hermann...
In 1990, Karen Uhlenbeck, 2019 Abel Prize Laureate,
Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, and
co-founder of the Institute’s Women and Mathematics Program, became
the second woman to give a Plenary Lecture at the...
This event celebrates the work and life of Emmy Noether, one of the first
Visitors at the Institute from 1933–35. A highly prolific
mathematician who published groundbreaking papers in rarefied
fields of abstract algebra and ring theory, Noether is...
