> Also, in my personal experience, she is quite well known.
True in my experience, also. My very first college math professor took 15 minutes out of lecture, in Calculus I, to tell us about her. He culminated by naming his dog after her, which I guess was his highest form of praise.
Don't get me wrong. Deriving conservation of energy from time invariance, conservation of momentum from linear translation invariance, etc. is totally cool. But it's not really accurate to say that she's not well-known.
True in my experience, also. My very first college math professor took 15 minutes out of lecture, in Calculus I, to tell us about her. He culminated by naming his dog after her, which I guess was his highest form of praise.
Don't get me wrong. Deriving conservation of energy from time invariance, conservation of momentum from linear translation invariance, etc. is totally cool. But it's not really accurate to say that she's not well-known.