"In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. In the realm of algebra, in which the most gifted mathematicians have been busy for centuries, she discovered methods which have proved of enormous importance in the development of the present-day younger generation of mathematicians."
- Albert Einstein
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether#cite_note-FOOTNOTE...
No idea how far up the totem pole that puts her.
Of course she was brilliant, and influential, but putting her in the same list as Newton or Einstein feels like intellectual hipsterdom.
