Emmy Noether

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Noether's theorem of the relation between the symmetries of a physical system and its conservation laws

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Noether's theorem of the relation between the symmetries of a physical system and its conservation laws

Noether's theorem of the relation between the symmetries of a physical system and its conservation laws

Mathematician Emmy Noether discovered a link between symmetries and conserved quantities,...

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