Olga Taussky-Todd
Olga Taussky-Todd | |
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1932 in Göttingen | |
| Born | August 30, 1906 |
| Died | October 7, 1995 (aged 89) Pasadena, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Doctorate, University of Vienna supervised by |
| Known for | Torchbearer for matrix theory; supervised Caltech's first female Ph.D. in Math, Lorraine Foster; corrected David Hilbert's papers |
| Spouse | John Todd |
| Parent(s) | Julius David Taussky, Ida Pollach |
| Awards | Fellow of Girton College, Bryn Mawr College, and the AAAS, a Noether Lecturer and a recipient of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Über eine Verschärfung des Hauptidealsatzes (1930) |
| Doctoral advisor | Philipp Furtwängler |
| Doctoral students | |
Olga Taussky-Todd (August 30, 1906 – October 7, 1995) was an Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician. She published more than 300 research papers on algebraic number theory, integral matrices, and matrices in algebra and analysis.