Olga Taussky Todd (August 30, 1906, Olomouc, then Austria-Hungary - October 7, 1995, Pasadena, California) was a Czech-American Jewish mathematician. Events 1363 - Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders— Chen Youliang and Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Olomouc (ˈolomoʊ̯ts ( local Haná dialect Olomóc or Holomóc, German Olmütz, Polish Ołomuniec, Latin Events 3761 BC - The epoch (origin of the modern Hebrew calendar ( Proleptic Julian calendar) Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Czech Americans refer to citizens of the United States who were born in or who descended from the territory of the historic Czech lands, (consisting of American Jews, or Jewish Americans
She worked first in algebraic number theory, with a doctorate at the University of Vienna supervised by Philipp Furtwängler. In Mathematics, algebraic number theory is a major branch of Number theory which studies the Algebraic structures related to Algebraic integers The University of Vienna (Universität Wien is a Public university located in Vienna, Austria. Philipp Furtwängler ( April 21, 1869, Elze, Germany – May 19, 1940, Vienna, Austria) was a During that time in Vienna she also attended the meetings of the Vienna Circle. The Vienna Circle (in German: der Wiener Kreis) was a group of philosophers who gathered around Moritz Schlick when he Later, she started to use matrices to analyze vibrations of airplanes during World War II, at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom. In Mathematics, a matrix (plural matrices) is a rectangular table of elements (or entries) which may be Numbers or more generally World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including The National Physical Laboratory (NPL is the national Measurement standards laboratory for the United Kingdom, based at Bushy Park in Teddington The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located She became the torchbearer for matrix theory. Matrix theory is a branch of Mathematics which focuses on the study of matrices.
In 1938 she married another mathematician, John Todd. John Todd ( May 16, 1911 &ndash June 21, 2007) was a professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of Numerical analysis.
In 1945 the Todds emigrated to the United States and worked for the National Bureau of Standards. In 1957 they joined the faculty of California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena
She was a Fellow of the AAAS, a Noether Lecturer and a recipient of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM annually presents the Noether Lectures to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical
External links
- Olga Taussky-Todd at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Short biography
- Narrative overview
- Biography on The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Noether Booklet
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