--- title: Emmy Noether, Renowned Mathematician, Honored in New Google Doodle description: Noether's work in algebra revolutionized the fields of mathematics and physics canonical: https://time.com/3753669/emmy-noether-mathematician-honored-google-doodle/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-23T06:00:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:40:58.356Z article:section: History og:title: New Google Doodle Honors Mathematician Emmy Noether og:description: Noether's work in algebra revolutionized the fields of mathematics and physics. og:url: https://time.com/3753669/emmy-noether-mathematician-honored-google-doodle/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96a10baef55d26e3/698784ad55a859426da8669c/screen-shot-2015-03-23-at-11-07-37-am.png?branch=production&width=484&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 484 og:image:height: 272 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-03-23 at 11.07.37 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Google Doodle Honors Mathematician Emmy Noether twitter:description: Noether's work in algebra revolutionized the fields of mathematics and physics. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96a10baef55d26e3/698784ad55a859426da8669c/screen-shot-2015-03-23-at-11-07-37-am.png?branch=production&width=484&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Google Doodle Honors Revolutionary Mathematician Emmy Noether > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Mar 23, 2015 6:00 AM UTC  Google by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Mar 23, 2015 6:00 AM UTC Emmy Noether may not be a household name, but her compatriot Albert Einstein — someone who definitely is — [once called her](http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1935/05/04/95502824.html?pageNumber=12) “the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.” Noether, [born in a small town in Germany](http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/417132/Emmy-Noether) in 1882, would have been 133 on Monday, and Google is celebrating her life with a doodle. She is credited with revolutionizing the fields of mathematics and physics with her theory of noncommutative algebras, where answers are determined by the order in which numbers are multiplied. ### See Google Doodles Through the Years  Aug. 26, 2015 For the 70th anniversary of La Tomatina. Google  May 26, 2015 In celebration of the 64th birthday of Sally Ride, the first American woman in space. Google  March 31, 2015 Honoring the 126th anniversary of the public opening of the Eiffel Tower. Google  Mar. 20, 2015 To celebrate the start of spring and the vernal equinox, Google created a stop-motion animation of flowers in bloom. Google  Nov. 12, 2014 For the landing of the Philae lander, the first spacecraft on a moving comet, Google created a gyrating lander with passing stars. Google  Sept. 9, 2014 For Tolstoy's 186th birthday, the Google Doodle team created an appropriately long click-through doodle. Google  May 27, 2014 For the Rachel Louise Carson doodle, the team surrounded her with birds and sea creatures to celebrate her 107th birthday. Google  May 4 2014 For Audrey Hepburn's 85th birthday, the doodle team adapted an image from a 1956 black and white photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh. Google  June 9, 2011 The doodlers came up with the idea of a playable logo, then pegged it to guitar innovator Les Paul's 96th birthday. Turning on composer mode allows you to create songs that you can share online. Google  March 24, 2011 The Harry Houdini doodle was created in the style of the old posters advertising the death-defying magician. Google  Nov. 25, 2010 Chef Ina Garten prepared this Thanksgiving feast, which Google photographed. If you clicked on a dish, her recipe appeared. Google  May 7, 2010 Google asked the San Francisco Ballet to pose and twirl to re-create Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Google  Oct. 7, 2009 Scan the doodle that marks the first patent for the bar code and you'll decode Google embedded within. Google  March 2, 2009 The doodlers arranged classic Dr. Seuss characters, like the Cat in the Hat and the Grinch, to form the logo's letters. Google  Jan. 28, 2009 There was no other way to honor abstract artist Jackson Pollack than with a chaotic drip painting. Google  Jan. 19, 2009 Guest artist Shepard Fairey (famed for his Obama HOPE poster) did a sketch for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Google  Jan. 28, 2008 Early on, Google used Lego blocks as casing for hard disks. Later it feted Lego's 50th anniversary. Google  April 22, 2007 A melting iceberg for Earth Day is one of many eco-minded doodles the team has created. Google  Jan. 4, 2006 Enter the world of out-there doodles — Google in braille. Only problem: you can't feel it. Google  March 30, 2005 The Van Gogh doodle appeared in an era when doodles began to get more ambitious, and it's one of the doodlers' best interpretations of a specific painter. Google  Aug. 13, 2003 Early doodles of famous folk tended to be simple, like this silhouette of Alfred Hitchcock. Google  March 14, 2003 The early doodles were often simple but playful, like this mustachioed drawing of Albert Einstein to celebrate his birthday. Google  Nov. 14, 2001 Google's first doodler, Dennis Hwang, gave the logo an Impressionist look for Claude Monet's birthday. Google  Aug. 30, 1998 When employees left for the Burning Man festival, the Google logo became a cryptic BE BACK LATER sign. "There was no master plan for doodles at that point," says doodler-in-chief Ryan Germick. Google After finishing her dissertation in 1907, Noether worked without pay at the university in her hometown of Erlangen for seven years, since women were not allowed to hold academic positions at the time. Her next post at the University of Göttingen was also denied official recognition for four years until 1919, because of objections from the institution’s staff. She moved to Pennsylvania’s Bryn Mawr College in 1933 after Nazi Germany dismissed Jews from university positions, and died there two years later. “I thought it would be best to highlight the mathematician’s numerous accomplishments and shine a light on the influence Noether had on the world,” [wrote](https://www.google.com/doodles/emmy-noethers-133rd-birthday) Sophie Diao, the doodle’s artist. _Read next:_ [_Google Doodle Celebrates the Top Searches of 2014_](http://time.com/3651019/2014-trending-topics-google-doodle/?iid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3753669/emmy-noether-mathematician-honored-google-doodle/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3753669/emmy-noether-mathematician-honored-google-doodle/"},"headline":"New Google Doodle Honors Revolutionary Mathematician Emmy Noether","datePublished":"2015-03-23T06:00:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:40:58.356Z","description":"Noether's work in algebra revolutionized the fields of mathematics and physics","url":"https://time.com/3753669/emmy-noether-mathematician-honored-google-doodle/","keywords":["Germany","Google Doodle","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96a10baef55d26e3/698784ad55a859426da8669c/screen-shot-2015-03-23-at-11-07-37-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"History","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96a10baef55d26e3/698784ad55a859426da8669c/screen-shot-2015-03-23-at-11-07-37-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-03-23 at 11.07.37 AM","caption":"","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/history/","name":"History"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3753669/emmy-noether-mathematician-honored-google-doodle/","name":"New Google Doodle Honors Revolutionary Mathematician Emmy Noether"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3753669/emmy-noether-mathematician-honored-google-doodle/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3753669/emmy-noether-mathematician-honored-google-doodle/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```