MOSCOW (Reuters) – A court in St Petersburg on Wednesday sentenced a dual U.S.-Russian national to three-and-a-half years in prison on charges of “rehabilitating” Nazism, the court’s press service said. Yuri Malev was arrested last December and charged over posts in which he was alleged to have denigrated the St George’s ribbon, a symbol of […]
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Emmy Noether faced sexism and Nazism – over 100 years later her contributions to ring theory still influence modern math
When Albert Einstein wrote an obituary for Emmy Noether in 1935, he described her as a “creative mathematical genius” who – despite “unselfish, significant work over a period of many years” – did not get the recognition she deserved. Noether made groundbreaking contributions to mathematics at a time when women were barred from academia and […]