Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Noether Theorems in Context
- 2 Felix Klein and Emmy Noether on Invariant Theory and Variational Principles
- 3 Moscow, Oxford, or Princeton: Emmy Noether’s Move from Göttingen (1933)
- 4 Getting to the Bottom of Noether’s Theorem
- 5 BV Quantisation in Perturbative Algebraic QFT: Fundamental Concepts and Perspectives
- 6 Divergence Invariant Variational Problems
- 7 Do Symmetries ‘Explain’ Conservation Laws? The Modern Converse Noether Theorem vs Pragmatism
- 8 Noether’s First Theorem and the Energy-Momentum Tensor Ambiguity Problem
- 9 Noether’s Theorems and Energy in General Relativity
- 10 Geometric Objects and Perspectivalism
- 11 Substantive General Covariance and the Einstein–Klein Dispute: A Noetherian Approach
- 12 Noether Charges, Gauge-Invariance, and Non-Separability
- 13 Observability, Redundancy, and Modality for Dynamical Symmetry Transformations
- 14 The Gauge Argument: A Noether Reason
- Index
3 - Moscow, Oxford, or Princeton: Emmy Noether’s Move from Göttingen (1933)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2022
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Noether Theorems in Context
- 2 Felix Klein and Emmy Noether on Invariant Theory and Variational Principles
- 3 Moscow, Oxford, or Princeton: Emmy Noether’s Move from Göttingen (1933)
- 4 Getting to the Bottom of Noether’s Theorem
- 5 BV Quantisation in Perturbative Algebraic QFT: Fundamental Concepts and Perspectives
- 6 Divergence Invariant Variational Problems
- 7 Do Symmetries ‘Explain’ Conservation Laws? The Modern Converse Noether Theorem vs Pragmatism
- 8 Noether’s First Theorem and the Energy-Momentum Tensor Ambiguity Problem
- 9 Noether’s Theorems and Energy in General Relativity
- 10 Geometric Objects and Perspectivalism
- 11 Substantive General Covariance and the Einstein–Klein Dispute: A Noetherian Approach
- 12 Noether Charges, Gauge-Invariance, and Non-Separability
- 13 Observability, Redundancy, and Modality for Dynamical Symmetry Transformations
- 14 The Gauge Argument: A Noether Reason
- Index
Summary
Emmy Noether received notification of dismissal from her university post in Göttingen in April 1933 and had to look for a position outside of Germany to continue her mathematical research. By the end of the year, she moved to Bryn Mawr College in the United States and started to give guest lectures at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. in February 1934. Her move was successful, but Noether initially considered going to Moscow and Oxford. She was enthusiastic about both options and even accepted an offer from Somerville College, Oxford. This chapter recovers the documents left in the Weston Library and Somerville College, the University of Oxford and Bryn Mawr College and recounts the effort of Pavel Sergeyevich Alexandroff and Helen Darbishire, who wished to help Noether and her academic career when she was forced to leave Göttingen.
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- The Philosophy and Physics of Noether's TheoremsA Centenary Volume, pp. 52 - 65Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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