Convergence Public Lecture: Emmy Noether: Her Life, Work, and Influence

During the Convergence conference at Perimeter Institute on June 21, 2015, Peter Olver and Ruth Gregory explored the mathematical legacy of Emmy Noether. More about Convergence: perimeterinstitute.ca/past-co...
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[@richarddeese1991]

In Relativity, Matter tells Space how to Curve, and Space tells Matter how to move. The Heart of Gold told Space to get knotted, and parked itself neatly within the inner steel perimeter of the Argabuthon Chamber of Law. :D Seriously though, Emmy Noether was an amazing and brilliant human being. It's both fitting and fun that two of the eminent *_male_* mathematicians of the day called upon *_her_* to solve their unsolvable problem. It's even more fitting that she absolutely *_delivered_* on the promise of her greatness by not only solving the problem, but presenting it gift-wrapped and tied with a bow! She saw through to the *_Heart_* of the *_Matter_* - and her solution was solid *_Gold!_* She confirmed the universal presence of this *_Law._* Dr. Gregory is completely right in saying that Noether's Theorem cannot be underestimated in its importance. It takes both math and science and forever connects them for every physicist who ever comes after her, to give them a deep and fundamental understanding of the beautiful symmetries of the universe around them - and us. I only hope that more and diverse peoples will be inspired to truly believe that they too can make contributions in the sciences. Thanks for a wonderful talk! 𝓽𝓪𝓿𝓲.

[@mrmeatymeatball]

One of my all time favorite mathematicians.

[@DavidODuvall]

Dr. Emmy Noether was a wonderful person who contributed so much to this world.

[@frangabar]

What a great presentation. I remember being totally in aw when I first learned about the Noether charge and symmetry.

[@julienteychene6022]

OMG Why don't we study this more ?? I went through all my science education never once hearing her name nor her theorem while the importance (and awesome power) of symmetries was driven unto me *-* Added a new hero to my list.

[@povilasrackauskas857]

Yes! I have been looking for a detailed documentary on Emmy Noether for ages!

[@Hythloday71]

Povilas Račkauskas this was better I thought 'Emmy Noether and the Fabric of Reality'

[@pauloabelha]

The assumption that the physical laws haven't changed through time is very interesting to think about! Both presenters were really good; different styles that complement each other albeit I would have preferred Ruth before Peter. I'm a PhD student in Computer Science and I have been reading and seeing things about Physics and Abstract Algebra as a hobby and I could never really get a good abstraction of the ideas behind modern physics; this video cast a light in my head in such a way that is hard to describe. It is like a lot of things in my mind suddenly clicked into a better understanding. I feel much more confident now to go and take a look at Abstract Algebra. Thank you Perimeter Institute for this video. I think it will be just at the right level for a lot of people to get the insights.

[@vhipster]

There's a mistake in the slide shown at 44:09. Where the gauge transformations are being described, one of the signs should be negative (i.e. both chi terms are being added, but one of them should be subtracted).

[@sirasy]

THANK YOU very much for this great video!

[@timswartz4520]

This should be understood by many.

[@paxdriver]

Thank you for the upload!

[@sam08090]

Thanks to convergence.

[@DrakePitts]

41:52 "Noether and Nature" is such a banger pun lol

[@SuperKnightsword]

P.I., PLEASE TURN LEFT IT FOR SUBTITLE IT WILL AUTOMATIC ITSELF DURING SPEAK. THANK YOU

[@UsmanAQazi]

Nice talks but first talk got totally botched up with unnecessary audience and speaker shots. Let your online viewers read each slide!

[@tronghai55]

Very nice presentation of a life of an 19 th century scientist but what is her contribution to the new science of this century in modern space physics solving the dilemna of the path of least momentum of the string theory. The lecturers are very well articulate and this lecture is insightful to beginners interests in physics.

[@hayekianman]

20th century

[@nmarbletoe8210]

@@hayekianman 19th and 20th

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

So yes all advancement is built on the shoulders of the humans before you and its times of convergence. You can also say that it was humans first observations of there surroundings that they came to the conclusion it was powers greater than themselves. And this big thing led to humans gathering for religion is which led to freeing up others to test and study leading to the domestication of plants and animals and continues evolving into more and more specialization. And no doubt religion was the custodians of knowledge, library, and writing. It also was what led to academic teaching. Its great advancements like ancient Greek predicting atoms which just show how they were equally as smart as today despite academic arrogance. But the one arrest person ever literally was happened to many people at once and those far must be the idea of religion as it is owed credit for our very survival. It is a larger amount of religious physicist than it was this prior century but you wouldn't expect the Hawkins or Krause to hate something that impacted them so much.lo

[@pooi-hoongchan8680]

👏👏👏👍👍👍

[@anduinwilde3981]

physicians are extremely good at getting their hand dirty to find the valuation principle ww

[@anduinwilde3981]

诺特背后的故事，即使是这样伟大的数学家，作为一个女性，仍受到如此的困难

[@robertbutwell5211]

She was wrong about certain kinds of symmetry, yeah?

[@NeedsEvidence]

This is a minor point, but I wonder why the first presenter, Peter Olver, who bragged about his German skills at the beginning of his talk, can't pronounce Emmy Noether's last name correctly. The "th" is pronounced like a simple "t" (like in "meter") and not like the English "th" (like in "mother")-this isn't that difficult. I ask this because the same presenter felt the desire to pronounce Christiaan Huygens' last name in original Dutch (which is more difficult)-and failed horribly. Nobody asked him to try.

[@NeedsEvidence]

Also, "die Gruppenpest", not "der Gruppenpest"

[@dr.mikeybee]

God's calculus of variations sounds to my oh-too-current mind like nature's loss function.

[@danielbrstak5730]

Please, tell me someone, is there any natural explanation of fact that jews are so good in math and physics ? Have they underwent some kind of a special training from their birth ? Witten, von Neumann, Grothendieck, Gelfand, Penrose , Einstein, Weinberg , Feynman,Landau etc. - the greatest minds of the 20th century-all of them Jews - only a coincidence ?