In 1904 Noether was accepted into the University of Erlangen and studied mathematics. She was able to graduate in 1908 and earn her P.h.D with honors. After being fired twice as a professor for first being a woman, and then being Jewish, Noether worked at the Mathematical Institute of Erlangen for seven years, researching and advising two students. She was invited to join the Mathematical Institute in Göttingen.
In the Institute, they were figuring the math of the Theory of Relativity, and with Noether’s help, in 1918, they were able to prove part of the theory using what is now known as “Noether’s Theorem.” Later in her life, at the age of forty, her style of math began to change. She began to develop new ways to perform abstract algebra. A new approach to methods that had been used for years before. Instead of focusing in on specific numbers and problems, Noether looked at properties from a farther distance and in a more general way. She was able to find connections between equations, properties, and theories, and make them useful is physics and chemistry.