Olga Taussky Todd (August 30, 1906, Olomouc, then Austria-Hungary - October 7, 1995, Pasadena, California) was a Czech-American Jewish mathematician. She worked first in algebraic number theory, with a doctorate at the University of Vienna supervised by Philipp Furtwängler. During that time in Vienna she also attended the meetings of the Vienna Circle. Later, she started to use matrices to analyze vibrations of airplanes during World War II, … Wikipedia
Luchins, Edith H. "Olga Taussky-Todd," in Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook, Louise Grinstein and Paul Campbell, Editors, Greenwood Press, 1987. www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/todd.htm
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