Fritz Noether

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Fritz Noether

Fritz Alexander Ernst Noether (October 7, 1884 in Erlangen – September 10, 1941 in Orel, Russia) was a German-born mathematician.

Fritz Noether's father Max Noether was a mathematician and professor in Erlangen. The notable mathematician Emmy Noether was his elder sister; the mathematician Gottfried Noether was his son.

Fritz Noether was also an able mathematician. Not allowed to work in Germany for being a Jew, he moved to the Soviet Union, where he was appointed to a professorship at the University of Tomsk. In November 1937, during the Great Purge, he was arrested at his home in Tomsk by the NKVD and sentenced to a 25-year imprisonment for being a "German spy". While in prison, he was accused of "anti-Soviet propaganda", sentenced to death, and shot.

In 1988 the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union decided that he had not been guilty of any crime.

References

Segal, Sanford L., Mathematicians under the Nazis page 60

Noether, Gottfried E. (September 1985). "Fritz Noether (1884–194?)". Integral Equations and Operator Theory 8 (5): 573–576. doi:10.1007/BF01201702.
Parastaev, Andrei (March 1990). "Letter to the editor". Integral Equations and Operator Theory 13 (2): 303–305. doi:10.1007/BF01193762.
Mathematicians under the Nazis. page 60: Princeton University Press. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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Name	Noether, Fritz
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Short description	German mathematician
Date of birth	October 7, 1884
Place of birth	Erlangen, Germany
Date of death	September 10, 1941
Place of death	Orel, Russia

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