Member Review

I enjoyed this book. I liked the conversational tone and the plain language explanations. Lee Phillips covers the important information while keeping the technical information to a minimum. Some of the material is complex but translating from Math to English can be incredibly difficult, as I’ve seen after having read a lot of these types of books. There was a lot of biographical information which I really enjoyed and I thought that the chapter on the legacy was brilliant. And it was worth at least skimming the Appendix as I found some fairly good nuggets. Overall this book is well worth reading, both as a biography of Emmy Noether’s Theorems, and a biography of the vastly under-appreciated Emmy Noether. Thank you to Netgalley and PublicAffairs for the advance reader copy.