Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether (born October 7, 1884 in Erlangen; died September 10, 1941 in Orel, Russia) was a German mathematician.
Life and death
Fritz Noether's father Max Noether was a mathematician and professor in Erlangen. The notable mathematician Emmy Noether was his elder sister. Fritz Noether was also an able mathematician. Not allowed to work in Germany for being a Jew, he moved to the Soviet Union, where he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Tomsk. There he was arrested during the Great Purge, and sentenced to a 25-year imprisonment for being a "German spy". While in prison, he was accused of "anti-Soviet propaganda", sentenced to death, and shot.
References
- Noether, Gottfried E. (September 1985). "Fritz Noether (1884–194?)". Integral Equations and Operator Theory 8 (5): 573-576.
- Parastaev, Andrei (March 1990). "Letter to the editor". Integral Equations and Operator Theory 13 (2): 303-305.
