Fritz Noether

Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether (October 7, 1884 in Erlangen – 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. In November 1937, during the Great Purge, he was arrested at his home in Tomsk by the NKVD 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

*cite journal |quotes= |last=Noether |first=Gottfried E. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1985 |month=September |title=Fritz Noether (1884–194?) |journal=Integral Equations and Operator Theory |volume=8 |issue=5 |pages=573–576 |id= |url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/l3r353315g73262r/ |accessdate= |doi=10.1007/BF01201702

*cite journal |quotes= |last=Parastaev |first=Andrei |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1990 |month=March |title=Letter to the editor |journal=Integral Equations and Operator Theory |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=303–305 |id= |url=http://www.springerlink.com/content/h73p2j2422254588/ |accessdate= |doi=10.1007/BF01193762

External links

* [http://www.physikerinnen.de/noetherpolitischehaltung.html Photograph of Fritz Noether and Emmy Noether, 1933.]
* [http://owpdb.mfo.de:4579/person_detail?start=0&id=3111 Photographs of Fritz Noether.]