Emmy Noether grew up in Germany, and in 1900 was certified to teach English and French. Rather than teach, she pursued a university education in mathematics, according to the Association of Women in Mathematics.
She earned her doctorate for a dissertation on a branch of abstract algebra. She moved to America and became a lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., where she developed many of the mathematical foundations for Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity and made significant advances in the field of algebra.
After her death in 1935, Mr. Einstein wrote, "In the judgement of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraeulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."
