Named for the noted mathematician, the Emmy Noether Research Institute for Mathematics held a two-day conference dedicated to her heritage and her influence on mathematics and physics in the 20th and 21st centuries. This volume presents the proceedings of that conference. It includes a comprehensive description of her contributions to commutative and noncommutative algebra, algebraic geometry, topology, and physics given by world experts in these fields. Also included is a profile of her life. The volume is a comprehensive collection of Noether's valuable contributions to mathematics and physics.

A publication of the Bar-Ilan University. Distributed worldwide by the AMS.

Readership

Graduate students and research mathematicians; physicists.

Table of Contents

• M. Teicher -- On Emmy Noether
• C. Procesi -- 150 years of invariant theory
• H. Flenner -- Emmy Noether and the development of commutative algebra
• W. Scharlau -- Emmy Noether's contributions to the theory of algebras
• F. Hirzebruch -- Emmy Noether and topology
• N. Byers -- E. Noether's discovery of the deep connection between symmetries and conservation laws
• Y. Ne'eman -- The impact of Emmy Noether's theorems on XXIst century physics