Presenter Full Name
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Dr. Ransom Stephens
Year & Semester
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2011 Fall
Presentation Date
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November 14, 2011
Dr. Ransom Stephens will discuss Emmy Noether, a female Jewish intellectual in Nazi Germany, who made perhaps the most significant discovery of the 20th century. Noether’s Theorem ties the laws of nature directly to the geometry of space and time, the very fabric of reality. It is the basis for all modern theories of physics. Two things should bother you about Noether’s Theorem: (1) how come so few people have heard of Emmy Noether? and (2) why isn’t her theorem well known to lovers of science? [Available on DVD in the SSU library.]