Wednesday, March 28, 2012

What Physics Students Do [Pic]

 I'm dating myself but when I was a university physics student, I couldn't just "Google" anything. We "yahooed"

What Physics Students Do [Pic]

Desposyni: The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of

I had never heard of Amalie Noether but it turns out that we all owe her.

She invented a theorem that united with magisterial concision two conceptual pillars of physics: symmetry in nature and the universal laws of conservation. Some consider Noether’s theorem, as it is now called, as important as Einstein’s theory of relativity; it undergirds much of today’s vanguard research in physics, including the hunt for the almighty Higgs boson

I really liked this article. Really important information. 

Desposyni: The Mighty Mathematician You’ve Never Heard Of