  I shall sketch the contents of Noether's 1918 article, "Invariante
Variationsprobleme", in the context of the debate on the conservation of energy
that had arisen from Einstein's general theory of relativity. How original was
Noether's "Invariante Variationsprobleme"? how modern were her use of Lie
groups and her introduction of generalized vector fields? and how influential
was her article? I shall sketch the curious transmission of her results from
1918 to 1970, the history of the later developments of her theory in
mathematics and in physics, and the ultimate recognition of the wide
applicability of "the Noether theorems".
