noether's work continues to be relevant for the development of theoretical physics and mathematics and she is consistently ranked as one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century. in his obituary, fellow algebraist bl van der waerden says that her mathematical originality was "absolute beyond comparison", and hermann weyl said that noether "changed the face of algebra by her work". during her lifetime and even until today, noether has been characterized as the greatest woman mathematician in recorded history by mathematicians such as pavel alexandrov, hermann weyl, and jean dieudonné.