The Noether Theorems: Invariance and Conservation Laws in the Twentieth Century by Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach
English | PDF | 2011(Corrected Publication 2018) | 211 Pages | ISBN : 038787867X | 2.69 MB
In 1915 and 1916 Emmy Noether was asked by Felix Klein and David Hilbert to assist them in understanding issues involved in any attempt to formulate a general theory of relativity, in particular the new ideas of Einstein. She was consulted particularly over the difficult issue of the form a law of conservation of energy could take in the new theory, and she succeeded brilliantly, finding two deep theorems.