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Max Noether (
September 24 1844 -
December 13 1921) was a German
mathematician who worked on
algebraic geometry and the theory of
algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century".
Biography
Max Noether was born in
Mannheim in 1844, to a family of wealthy wholesale hardware dealers. His grandfather, Elias Samuel, had started the business in
Bruchsal in 1797. In 1809
Grand Duchy of Baden established a "Tolerance Edict", which assigned a hereditary surname to the male head of every Jewish family which didn't already possess one. Thus the Samuels became the Nöther family, and as part of this Christianization of names, their son Hertz (Max's father) became Hermann. Max was the third of five children Hermann had with his wife Amalia Würzburger.
At the age of fourteen Max contracted
polio and was afflicted by its effects for the rest of his life. Through
self-study, he learned advanced mathematics and entered the
University of Heidelberg in 1865. He served on the faculty there for several years, then moved to the
University of Erlangen in 1888. While at Erlangen, Noether helped to found the field of
algebraic geometry.
In 1880 he married Ida Amalia Kaufmann, the daughter of another wealthy Jewish merchant family. Two years later they'd their first child, named Amalia Emmy after her mother.
Emmy Noether went on to become a central figure in
abstract algebra. In 1883 they'd a son named Alfred, who later studied
chemistry before dying in 1918. Their third child, Fritz, was born in 1884. Like Emmy,
Fritz Noether also found prominence as a mathematician. Little is known about their fourth child, Gustav Robert, born in 1889. He suffered from continual illness and died in 1928.
Max Noether served as an
Ordinarius (full professor) at Erlangen for many years, and died there on
13 December 1921. Because of his daughter's prominence, reference books today generally describe Max as the father of Emmy Noether, rather than the inverse (as was common for most of her life). A family friend,
Edmund Landau, once described Emmy as "the origin of
coordinates" for the Noether family.
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