Olga Taussky-Todd

Olga Taussky-Todd
Olga Taussky-Todd
	1932 in Göttingen
Born	August 30, 1906; Olomouc, Austria-Hungary
Died	October 7, 1995 (aged 89); Pasadena, California, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Vienna
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
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	National Physical Laboratory; University of London; National Bureau of Standards; California Institute of Technology;
Thesis	Über eine Verschärfung des Hauptidealsatzes (1930)
Doctoral advisor	Philipp Furtwängler
Doctoral students	Lorraine Foster; Philip J. Hanlon; Charles Royal Johnson; Hanna Neumann; Robert Charles Thompson;

Olga Taussky-Todd (August 30, 1906 – October 7, 1995) was an Austrian and American mathematician. She published more than 300 research papers on algebraic number theory, integral matrices, and matrices in algebra and analysis.