Emmy Noether - The Most Important Mathematician You've Never Heard of

Informationen zum Autor Helaine Becker is a bestselling children's author of more than ninety books, including Hubots, Monster Science, Zoobots, The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea and Lines, Bars and Circles. She is a two-time recipient of the Lane Anderson Award and a winner of the Silver Birch Award and the Red Cedar Award. She lives in Toronto, Ontario. Klappentext An engaging picture book biography of a groundbreaking female mathematician.Emmy Noether is not pretty, quiet or good at housework --- all the things a girl of her time is expected to be. What she is, though, is brilliant at math. And when she grows up, she skirts the rules to first study math at a university and then teach it. She also helps to solve some of the most pressing mathematical and physics problems of the day. And though she doesn't get much credit during her lifetime, her discoveries continue to influence how we understand the world today.One of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century finally gets her due!

Product details

• Authors: Helaine Becker, Helaine/ Rust Becker
• Assisted by: Kari Rust (Illustration)
• Publisher: Kids can press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 6 to 9
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781525300592
• ISBN: 978-1-5253-0059-2
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Picture books; JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism, Kinder/Jugendliche: Persönliche und soziale Themen: Vorurteile und Intolleranz, Kinder/Jugendliche: Biografische Romane, Children's Books / All Ages, JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women, JUVENILE FICTION / Biographical / General