Olga Taussky-Todd
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Olga Taussky Todd (August 30, 1906, Olomouc, then Austria-Hungary - October 7, 1995, Pasadena, California) was a mathematician.
She worked first in algebraic number theory, with a doctorate at the University of Vienna supervised by Philipp Furtwängler. She started to use matrices to analyze vibrations of airplanes during World War II, at the National Physical Laboratory in the United Kingdom. She became the torchbearer for matrix theory.
[edit] External links
- Olga Taussky-Todd at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Short biography
- Narrative overview
- Biography on The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
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