Emmy Noether was the most important female mathematician in history and one of the most outstanding female scientists of all time. Despite her significance, however, she continues to be virtually unknown. As a woman, a Jew, and a female mathematician in Germany during the first third of the 20th century, she overcame every obstacle her society and lifetime placed in her path. Emmy’s Tree explores the life of an exceptional person – one whom Albert Einstein considered to be a genius.

The author takes an intimate yet rigorous look at Emmy and puts the reader right inside the stories of many other women in mathematics, a discipline that was and continues to be male-dominated.