They called you der Noether, as if mathematics
was only for men. In 1964, nearly thirty years
past your death, I saw you in a spotlight
in a World's Fair mural, "Men of Modern Mathematics."
The complete poem, "My Dance is Mathematics," is available here. Its final statement is:
They say she was good / For a woman.
Scroll down -- or follow this link -- to still more poems that celebrate the women of mathematics.
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