Noether is the family name of several mathematicians (particularly, the Noether family), and the name given to some of their mathematical contributions: *

Max Noether Max Noether (24 September 1844 – 13 December 1921) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the ...

(1844–1921), father of Emmy and Fritz Noether, and discoverer of: **

Noether inequality In mathematics, the Noether inequality, named after Max Noether, is a property of compact minimal complex surfaces that restricts the topological type of the underlying topological 4-manifold. It holds more generally for minimal projective surfaces ...

** Max Noether's theorem, several theorems *

Emmy Noether Amalie Emmy Noether Emmy is the ''Rufname'', the second of two official given names, intended for daily use. Cf. for example the résumé submitted by Noether to Erlangen University in 1907 (Erlangen University archive, ''Promotionsakt Emmy Noeth ...

(1882–1935), professor at the University of Göttingen and at Bryn Mawr College **

Noether's theorem Noether's theorem or Noether's first theorem states that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system with conservative forces has a corresponding conservation law. The theorem was proven by mathematician Emmy Noether ...

(or Noether's first theorem) **

Noether's second theorem In mathematics and theoretical physics, Noether's second theorem relates symmetries of an action functional with a system of differential equations. :Translated in The action ''S'' of a physical system is an integral of a so-called Lagrangian ...

Noether normalization lemma In mathematics, the Noether normalization lemma is a result of commutative algebra, introduced by Emmy Noether in 1926. It states that for any field ''k'', and any finitely generated commutative ''k''-algebra ''A'', there exists a non-negati ...

** Noetherian rings ** Nöther crater, on the far side of the moon, named after Emmy Noether *

Fritz Noether Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether (7 October 1884 – 10 September 1941) was a Jewish German mathematician who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. He was later executed by the NKVD. Biography Fritz Noether's father Max Noether ...

(1884–1941), professor at the University of Tomsk *

Gottfried E. Noether Gottfried Emanuel Noether (7 January 1915 – 22 August 1991) was a German-born American statistician and educator; one of the third generation of a famous family of mathematicians: he was the son of Fritz Noether and nephew of Emmy No ...

(1915–1991), son of Fritz Noether, statistician at the University of Connecticut

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