Edmund Landau: "Emmy is certainly an eminent mathematician, but I'm not sure it's women"
Norbert Wiener: "Your students swarm between her and her mother hen chicks"
Hermann Weyl: "Thanks not governed its cradle
Weyl himself said:" We called the Noether, but with the respectful recognition of its power as a creative thinker, who had broken the barriers of sex "
Short and stocky, deep voice and unrefined, neglected his dress and hair styling for an Emmy and was difficult being a woman and Jewish in Germany in the 30's.
His biggest "sin", however, was not that. Emmy Noether
, possibly one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century was, for any cultural standard, definitely ugly.
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