Talk:Olga Taussky-Todd

Name?
should this article be moved to "olga taussky-todd"? i've only seen her referred to as "olga taussky" or "olga taussky-todd" but not "olga taussky todd". does anyone else know differently? thanks. Lunch 03:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC)


 * i moved the article. i can provide numerous references to the hyphenated version if anyone's interested.  Lunch 00:29, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Hilbert?
I read in Notices Of The AMS once that she had spent 3 years correcting Hilberts papers for publication on one of his later birthdays, A link to the paper is here http://www.ams.org/notices/199701/index.html it is called "Ten Things I Wish I Had Been Taught", perhaps it should be added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.30.168.243 (talk) 11:37, 10 April 2011 (UTC)

Czech?
It seems natural to assume that she was Austrian, or Hungaro-Austrian. Is there any other reason to refer to her as "Czech" besides her birthplace now being part of the Czech republic (which is not a good reason)? --84.177.72.225 (talk) 13:35, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * From http://www.ams.org/notices/199608/taussky.pdf: "The Jewess from Austria and the Presbyterian Northern Irishman were married in London on September 29, 1938" -> Jewish, Austrian and not Czech. --84.177.89.221 (talk) 13:53, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * [I wouldn't set much store by that, as the AMS editor permitted anachronism for Todd's 1911 birth as Northern Ireland did not exist until 1921. He was born British, an Ulsterman and an Irishman. However, both Todd and Taussky lived in their native provinces after Northern Ireland was formed and Czechoslovakia was granted independence (1918).] --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 14:20, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

In his [obituary]  Edmund Hlawka  called her an Austrian mathematician. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.117.27.146 (talk) 06:08, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
 * It seems that for Taussky, both Czech and Austrian are correct. I think that the Kingdom of Bohemia (České království) existed as an Austro-Hungarian province in 1906. Do any of the books say if she took Czechoslovak citizenship on independence, or indeed when she moved to Vienna? (It might be reasonable to guess that she moved after independence, which was declared when she was 12.) I don't think Todd was English. I'll fix both. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 14:20, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Some more articles
see e.g.
 * http://www.math.wisc.edu/~hans/paper_archive/other_papers/hs057.pdf
 * http://www.awm-math.org/noetherbrochure/Taussky-Todd81.html
 * Hans Schneider, "Olga Tauskky-Todd's influence on matrix theory and matrix theorists," Linear Multilinear Alg. 5 (1977), 197-224
 * "Publications about Olga Taussky Todd" Linear Algebra and its Applications 280 (Elsevier 1998)59-85(listing 34 publications about her)

I don't think this article adequately conveys how important she was. Before her, matrices were an obscure topic. After her, they became central to a huge array of mathematical models, particularly computer models, in various fields: social science, physical science, and engineering -- particularly as implemented in computers.