The Life and Work of Emmy Noether

Despite working without official standing for part of her career, and without pay even longer, Emmy Noether did more than her share in making mathematics look the way it does to us today.  Her work on the theory of ideals of rings (building on Kummer and Dedekind) and modules over a ring is probably her most well known, but she also made significant contributions to invariant theory, noncommutative algebra, group
representation theory, and physics.  This talk will present a brief survey of this work, and of Noether's life.