In this episode of pplpod, we dive into the life of Amalie Emmy Noether, the German mathematician described by Albert Einstein and Hermann Weyl as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. Despite facing systemic sexism and political persecution, Noether revolutionized abstract algebra and provided the mathematical backbone for modern physics,.

Join us as we discuss:

• The "Bathhouse" Debate: How Noether worked without pay for seven years at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen and faced opposition at the University of Göttingen, where faculty members argued that soldiers returning from war shouldn't have to learn "at the feet of a woman",. We cover David Hilbert’s famous defense of her, reminding colleagues that a university is "not a bathhouse".