The Erlangen Period (1882–1915)

Auguste Dick

A chapter in Emmy Noether 1882–1935, 1981, pp 4-27 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract AMALIE EMMY NOETHER was born—the first child of Jewish parents—on March 23, 1882 in Erlangen in Southern Germany. Since 1743 this provincial town, Bavarian since 1810, had one of the three existing “free” universities (i.e., a university founded independent of the churches)—the other two being in Halle (since 1697) and in Gottingen (since 1737). The first outstanding mathematician at the University of Erlangen was Christian von Staudt (1798–1867), whose work is fundamental to synthetic geometry. But it was Felix Klein (1849–1925) who brought world fame in mathematics to Erlangen with his inaugural lecture of 1872, explaining the significance, first recognized by him, of the concept of a group in geometry.

Keywords: Modern Language; Jewish Family; Inaugural Lecture; Winter Semester; Young Mathematician (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1981
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-0535-4_2

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