In the spring of 1933, with the rise of the Nazi party to power in Germany, Noether faced persecution as both a woman academic and an anti-Nazi Jew. She left Germany for a teaching job at Bryn Mawr College. During the 1934-1935 academic year Noether taught one graduate level course in Algebra in the department of mathematics. Noether died in 1935 at the Bryn Mawr Hospital. She was eulogized by Albert Einstein in the New York Times following her death and her ashes were buried in the Cloisters of Bryn Mawr College. Today, Noether is considered the most influential female mathematician of the twentieth century, contributing both Noether’s theorem and Noether’s second theorem to the fields of physics and mathematics.
Learn about Noether, math at Bryn Mawr, and try your hand at an early mathematics entrance exam by visiting this exhibition on display in Canaday Library's Lusty Cup Annex.