Olga taussky todd biography of albert einstein

Main achievements: Corrected David Hilbert's papers.

Latimer-MacDuffee theorem.

Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician. She is famous for her more than 300 research papers in algebraic number theory, integral matrices, and matrices in algebra and analysis.

Olga Taussky was born into a Jewish family in what is now Olomouc, Czech Republic, on August 30, 1906.

Olga taussky todd biography of albert einstein

Her father, Julius David Taussky, was an industrial chemist and her mother, Ida Pollach, was a housewife. She was the second of three children. At the age of three, her family moved to Vienna and lived there until the middle of World War I.

Later Taussky's father accepted a position as director of a vinegar factory at Linz in Upper Austria. At a young age, Taussky displayed a keen interest in mathematics. After he