noether remained a leading member of the göttingen mathematics department until 1933; her students were sometimes called the "noether boys". in 1924, dutch mathematician b. l. van der waerden joined her circle and soon became the leading expositor of noether's ideas; her work was the foundation for the second volume of his influential 1931 textbook, "moderne algebra". by the time of her plenary address at the 1932 international congress of mathematicians in zürich, her algebraic acumen was recognized around the world. the following year, germany's nazi government dismissed jews from university positions, and noether moved to the united states to take up a position at bryn mawr college in pennsylvania. in 1935 she underwent surgery for an ovarian cyst and, despite signs of a recovery, died four days later at the age of 53.