Olga Taussky-Todd

Olga Taussky-Todd
1932 in Göttingen
Born	(1906-08-30)August 30, 1906 Olomouc, Austria-Hungary
Died	October 7, 1995(1995-10-07) (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	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 later Czech-American mathematician.^[1][2] She published more than 300 research papers on algebraic number theory, integral matrices, and matrices in algebra and analysis.