There are important physical consequences of symmetries in physics, especially if the dynamics of a system is invariant under a symmetry transformation. There is a theorem, due to Emily Noether, one ...There are important physical consequences of symmetries in physics, especially if the dynamics of a system is invariant under a symmetry transformation. There is a theorem, due to Emily Noether, one of the most important (female) mathematicians of this century, that states that for any continuous symmetry there is a conserved quantity.
