caption death_date death_place religion birth_place citizenship ethnicity fields workplaces birth_date known_for doctoral_students image article_title name alma_mater
max noether , c. 1870s 13 december 1921 erlangen , bavaria , germany jewish mannheim , baden , germany baden , bavarian german mathematics university of heidelberg university of erlangen 24 september 1844 algebraic geometry algebraic functions emanuel lasker william osgood noether 2514.jpg max noether
 max noether university of heidelberg
max noether

max noether , occasionally spelled max nöther , -lrb- 24 september 1844 -- 13 december 1921 -rrb- was a german mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions .
he has been called `` one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century '' .
he was the father of emmy noether .
