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This activity has multiple solutions. It is interesting to allow students to show their choices and try to work on the search for simple, plain brands or references that allow them to generate the entire drawing.

The motif can be moved linearly, rotated or mirrored. The important thing is that the different motifs cannot overlap each other to form the pattern.

She was a contemporary of great mathematicians and physicists of the time such as Mileva Maric; Marie Curie (1867-1934), a pioneer in the field of radioactivity who was twice a Nobel Prize winner; Hilda Geiringer (1893-1973), who applied probability in the field of genetics; Tatiana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa (1876-1964), who worked on statistical mechanics; and Charlotte Angas Scott (1838-1931), specialist in algebra and geometry and fighter for the incorporation of women in universities.

Her predecessors with important contributions in mathematics and science were Sophia Brahe (1556-1643), Maria Cunitz (1610-1664), Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) and Nicole Lepaute (1723-1788).

Emmy Noether worked on the interpretation of the Theory of Relativity, in which Mileva Maric (1875-1948) participated with her husband, Albert Einstein; and also with the mathematicians Hilbert and Klein. Virginia Ragsdale, an American mathematician known for the Ragsdale conjecture, would also work with them.

She received her doctorate at the University of Erlangen, being the second woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics at a German university, before Marie Gernet had received her doctorate (1895) and shortly after Frieda Nugel (1912).

Due to the rise of the Nazi movement, she lost her job and was forced to emigrate to the United States. There she worked as a teacher at Bryn Mawr College, where Hilda Geiringer, Anna Wheeler or Charlotte Angas Scott also worked in mathematics. Women's schools in the US played an important role at that time, as it was a space where women could access jobs. 

Other contemporary figures include the engineer Anna Wagner, the inventors Lady Edison and Maria Beasley, the teacher Rosa Sensat i Vilà, the writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, the food scientist and Philippine army captain during the Second World War Maria Orosa and the Yugoslav composer Ljubica Marić.

A crater on the dark side of the moon and asteroid 7001 are named Noether in her honour.

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In this activity we will work on plane geometry through borders and mosaics. The objective is to find the motif that is repeated in each border and create your own motif that generates a new border.

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