Fritz Noether

Fritz Noether
Born(1884-10-07)7 October 1884
Died10 September 1941(1941-09-10) (aged 56)
Cause of deathExecution by shooting
Alma materUniversity of Munich
Known forHerglotz–Noether theorem
SpouseRegine (died 1935)[1]
ChildrenGottfried, Hermann[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsKarlsruhe Institute of Technology
Wrocław University of Science and Technology
Tomsk State University
ThesisÜber rollende Bewegung einer Kugel auf Rotationsflächen (1909)
Doctoral advisorAurel Voss
Doctoral studentsHelmut Heinrich [de]
Left to right: Herrmann, Fritz, and Regine Noether, Lotte and Gottfried Heisig; c. 1930–1931 in the Giant Mountains.

Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether (7 October 1884 – 10 September 1941) was a Jewish German mathematician who emigrated from Nazi Germany to the Soviet Union. He was later executed by the NKVD.[2]

His father was the mathematician Max Noether and his elder sister was the mathematician Emmy Noether.

  1. ^ a b Tollmien, Dr. Cordula (13 June 2006) [1990]. "Lebensdaten" [Lifetime dates]. Lebensläufe Emmy Noethers (in German). Mathematischen Institut der Universität Göttingen. Archived from the original on 10 May 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2015.
  2. ^ Misha, Shifman (2017-01-16). Standing Together In Troubled Times: Unpublished Letters Of Pauli, Einstein, Franck And Others. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-320-103-3.