Euler

[RuudSaurins at aol.com]

Symmetry in Physics,
    A female mathematician working with Hilbert at Goettingen that might fit the description offered for Pynchon's heroine in his novel under construction would be Emmy Noether.  I am not sure if she was Russian; I thought Prussian.  She is given credit for the development of the mathematical "formulae"(?) that are applied in modern physics to define "symmetry".  
    Girls, math, physics, and symmetry; add a six-pack or sum wine, mebbe a smoak, 'new jest may have the stuffin' furry new novel (is "new novel" redundant?).
                            Deep in Hilbert Space and truly,
                            Ruud