Throughout her career, Noether faced severe discrimination because of her gender, but she studied and worked in whatever capacity she was allowed. An inheritance from her father apparently allowed her to work for little or no pay when necessary. From 1908 until 1915, Noether did research at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen, where she served as dissertation adviser for two students. She occasionally delivered lectures for her father, who suffered lingering effects of a childhood case of polio. During this period, Noether began to work with Ernst Fischer, an algebraist who directed her toward the broad theoretical style characteristic of Hilbert.
Formulates the Mathematics of Relativity
Klein and Hilbert invited Noether to join them at the Mathematical Institute in Göttingen. They were working on the mathematics of the newly announced general theory of relativity, and they believed Noether's expertise would be helpful. Albert Einstein later wrote an article for the 1955 Grolier Encyclopedia, in which he characterized the theory of relativity by the basic question: "How must the laws of nature be constituted so that they are valid in the same form relative to .
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