On April 9, 2025, the Department of Mathematics in collaboration with the Department of Theatre and Dance and the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis hosted the play "Diving into Math with Emmy Noether." Wyatt Pavilion Theater was packed with faculty, students and staff from all over campus. The play complemented classroom learning by showing the struggles Emmy Noether faced during her life and the context in which her mathematics was created.
Informally, a mechanical linkage is a system of rigid links (rods or bars) connected by
ideal joints and moving in the plane or in the space. This definition suffices for engineering purposes,
and one can find it in some form in many engineering
books. However, from the mathematical viewpoint, this is not a satisfactory definition.
