Noether’s ashes were buried in the cloisters ouside the Bry Mawr old library. Bryn Mawr’s mascot is the owl. Go owls. Image: Jeffrey M Vinocur, CC BY 2.5/Adobe Firefly
Elinor is a PhD student at the Open University studying the history of maths. She loves maths, history and most things in between!
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