There's something uniquely frustrating about the world of scientific discovery. We celebrate the names we know, the heroes ...
Imagine a juggler tossing balls into the air. The art of juggling is a dance between motion and pause, where the ball’s speed ...
Symmetry plays a central role in quantum mechanics, serving as a foundational concept for understanding and predicting the behavior of quantum systems. Its deep connection to conservation laws, ...
This paper presents a brief review on Lagrangian-Hamiltonian Mechanics and deals with the several developments and extensions in this area, which have been based upon the principle of D'Alambert or ...
Proper conservation laws, that is, the existence of local functions of the fields whose divergence vanishes on-shell, are associated with global symmetries and are a consequence of Noether's first ...
Emmy Noether’s groundbreaking theorem transformed physics by linking symmetry to conservation laws. If you were drifting alone through the vast emptiness of deep space and hurled a rock into the void, ...
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 ...
Emmy Noether was praised by Einstein for her work in mathematical physics. Like Einstein, she fled Nazi Germany for the U.S.. A play about her life, "Diving into Math with Emmy Noether," will be ...