Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.
E. Landau
Source: J.E. Littlewood, A Mathematician's Miscellany, Methuen and Co ltd., 1953.
Contributed by: Zaady
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