61. The MathWorks - MATLAB News & Notes - December 2004 - Cleve's Corner - The Origi Researchers at INA included George Forsythe, John Todd, and olga tausskytodd.When the INA dissolved in 1957, Forsythe joined the faculty at Stanford and http://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/news_notes/clevescorner/dec04.html

var host_pre = "http://www"; Home Select Country Contact Us Store Search Create Account Log In Industries Academia ... Past Issues MATLAB Digest July 2005 May 2005 Past Issues February 2005 ... Past Issues Automotive Digest April 2005 October 2004 Past Issues Contact sales ... Print this page Video: The Origins of MATLAB Cleve Moler describes his inspiration for authoring MATLAB. (8:17) View in QuickTime View in Windows Media Cleve's Corner The Origins of MATLAB by Cleve Moler With 2004 marking the 20th anniversary of The MathWorks, it’s a good time to look back at the origins of MATLAB. Wilkinson was a British mathematician who spent his entire career at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington, outside London. Working on a simplified version of a sophisticated design by Alan Turing, Wilkinson and colleagues at NPL built the Pilot Automatic Computing Engine (ACE), one of Britain’s first stored-program digital computers. The Pilot ACE ran its first program in May 1950. Wilkinson did matrix computations on the machine and went on to become the world’s leading authority on numerical linear algebra. At about the same time, mathematicians at the Institute for Numerical Analysis (INA), a branch of the National Bureau of Standards, located at UCLA, were working with the Standards Western Automatic Computer (SWAC), one of the USA’s first computers. Researchers at INA included George Forsythe, John Todd, and Olga Taussky-Todd. When the INA dissolved in 1957, Forsythe joined the faculty at Stanford and the Todds joined the faculty at Caltech.

62. 43 Femmes Mathématiciennes olga tausskytodd (1906) Mary Catherine Bishop Weiss (19301966) 220224);Edith H. Luchins, olga taussky-todd (1906) (pp. 225235); Guido Weiss, http://www.mjc-andre.org/pages/amej/evenements/cong_02/part_suj/fiches/femmes.ht

43 exemples d'avant 1987 Women of mathematics. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (17181799) Nina Karlovna Bari (19011961) Ruth Aaronson Bari (1917) Dorothy Lewis Bernstein (1914) Gertrude Mary Cox (19001978) Kate Fenchel (19051983) Irmgard Flugge-Lotz (19031974) Hilda Geiringer von Mises (18931973) Sophie Germain (17761831) (pp. 4756) Evelyn Boyd Granville (1924) (pp. 5761) Ellen Amanda Hayes (18511930) Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (1906) Ian Mueller, Hypatia (370?415) Sofja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja (18961966) Carol Karp (19261972) Claribel Kendall (18891965) Pelageya Yakovlevna Polubarinova-Kochina (1899) Sofia Vasilevna Kovalevskaia (18501891) Edna Ernestine Kramer Lassar (19021984) Christine Ladd-Franklin (18471930) Augusta Ada Lovelace (18151852) Sheila Scott Macintyre (19101960) Ada Isabel Maddison (18691950) Helen Abbot Merrill (18641949) Cathleen Synge Morawetz (1923) Hanna Neumann (19141971) Mary Frances Winston Newson (18691959) Emmy Noether (18821935) Rozsa Peter (19051977) Mina Rees (1902) Julia Bowman Robinson (19191985) Charlotte Angas Scott (18581931) Mary Emily Sinclair (18781955) Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (17801872) Pauline Sperry (18851967) Alicia Boole Stott (18601940) Olga Taussky-Todd (1906) Mary Catherine Bishop Weiss (19301966) Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler (18831966) Grace Chisholm Young (18681944) This book includes essays on 43 women mathematicians, each essay consisting of a biographical sketch, a review/assessment of her work, and a bibliography which usually lists most of her mathematical works, a few works about her, and occasionally a few other references. The essays are arranged alphabetically by the women's best-known professional names. A better arrangement would have been by the periods within which the women worked; an approximation to that can be achieved by using the list in Appendix A of the included women ordered by birthdate. With its many appendices and its two good indexes, the bibliographic structure of this book is excellent. This together with its reviews of the work of many less-known women mathematicians makes it a valuable contribution to the history of mathematics.

63. Here Are The Names Currently [April 1999] In The Index At Http Leandros Tate, JT Tate, John Tateishi, Masahiko Taub, Abraham Haskel Tauber,Joshua A. Taussky, olga tausskytodd, olga Taussky Todd, olga Tautou, http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/99/photos

64. Olga D Ermolaeva - ResearchIndex Document Query A Result Of Sinnott H. Kisilevsky To The Memory Of olga tausskytodd, A Friend,A Collegue And An pn Gamma and Gn =Gamma=Gamma n Let A be a discrete http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cis?q=Olga D. Ermolaeva

65. SUB - Reine Mathematik, Neuerwerbungsliste 4. Quartal 1998 Conference in memory of olga tausskytodd ; (Pasadena, Calif.) 1996.04.13 (Pacificjournal of mathematics ; 1997, Special issue) http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/archiv/nel/neu_103/i8.htm

Reine Mathematik Neuerwerbungsliste 4. Quartal 1998 Allgemeines (A - AGZZ 999) Informatik (AH - AHZZ 999) Mathematik (E - EZZZ 999) xxx (F - KZZZ 999) ... Z xxx (TM - ZZZZ 999): N (Collection informatique) ISBN 2-88074-356-7 Standort: FA 21644:1 The Proceedings of the Sixth National Seminar on Finsler, Lagrange and Hamilton Spaces / Societatea de Stiinte Matematice din Romania ... . Red.: Atanasiu Gheorghe. - Brasov, 1990. - 164 S. [Kongr.:] National Seminar on Finsler, Lagrange and Hamilton Spaces ; 6 (Brasov) : ca. 1990. Standort: FMAG' 98 A 21335 National Seminar on Theoretical Computer Science, Madras, India, July 4-6, 1991 : proceedings / P.S. Thiagarajan (ed.). - Madras, India : Institute of Mathematical Sciences ; School of Mathematics, SPIC Science Foundation, [1991]. - 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm [Kongr.:] National Seminar on Theoretical Computer Science ; (Madras, India) (IMSc report ; 115) Jointly sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the School of Mathematics, SPIC Foundation"Foreword. - Report TCS-91-1. - Includes bibliographical references Standort: 98 B 4823 Natural gas technologies : energy security, environmental and economic development ; [papers presented at the IEA International Conference on Natural Gas Technologies: Energy Security, Environmental and Economic Development, held in] Kyoto, Japan, 31. October - 3. November 1993 ; conference proceedings / International Energy Agency ... - Paris : OECD, 1994. - XVI, 1131 S.

66. Olga Taussky-Todd Université Montpellier II olga Arsenievna Oleinik olga taussky-todd olga taussky-todd (1906-1995). Cette image et la biographie complète en anglais http://ens.math.univ-montp2.fr/SPIP/article.php3?id_article=1880

67. Nat' Academies Press, Nobel Prize Women In Science: Their Lives, Struggles, And olga tausskytodd, in hlafhemaficaf People Profi les and Interviews, eds.Donald J. Albers and GL Alexanderson Boston Birkhauser, 1985). http://www.nap.edu/books/0309072700/html/408.html

Read more than 3,000 books online FREE! More than 900 PDFs now available for sale HOME ABOUT NAP CONTACT NAP HELP ... ORDERING INFO Items in cart [0] TRY OUR SPECIAL DISCOVERY ENGINE Questions? Call 888-624-8373 Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries, Second Edition (1993) Joseph Henry Press ( JHP Find More Like This Book Research ... Dashboard NEW! BUY This Book CHAPTER SELECTOR: Openbook Linked Table of Contents Front Matter, pp. i-xii 1 A Passion for Discovery, pp. 1-8 2 Marie Sklodowska Curie, pp. 9-36 3 Lise Meitner, pp. 37-63 4 Emmy Noether, pp. 64-90 5 Gerty Radnitz Cori, pp. 91-116 6 Irene Joliot-Curie, pp. 117-143 7 Barbara McClintock, pp. 144-174 8 Maria Goeppert Mayer, pp. 175-200 9 Rita Levi-Montalcini, pp. 201-224 10 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, pp. 225-253 11 Chien-Shiung Wu, pp. 254-278 12 Gertrude Belle Elion, pp. 279-302 13 Rosalind Elsie Franklin, pp. 303-331 14 Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, pp. 332-354 15 Jocelyn Bell Burnell, pp. 355-377 16 Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, pp. 378-405 Afterword, pp. 406-407

68. Lehrstuhl B Für Mathematik Der RWTH Aachen - Publikationen Dedicated to Henry B. Mann, Arnold E. Ross, and olga tausskytodd. olga taussky-todd, California Institute of Technology, 1976, 5.2-5.34 http://wwwb.math.rwth-aachen.de/veroeffentlichungen.html

Hartjen, G. and PLESKEN, W. Constructing matrices with given generalized characteristic polynomial. in: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Multidimensional Systems (NDS 2005), University of Wuppertal, Germany PLESKEN, W. and Robertz, D. Janet's approach to presentations and resolutions for polynomials and linear pdes. Archiv der Mathematik (2005), no. 1, 22-37 Chyzak, F., Quadrat, A. and Robertz, D. OreModules: A symbolic package for the study of multidimensional linear systems. in: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2004), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Blinkov, Y. A., Cid, C. F., Gerdt, V. P., PLESKEN, W. and Robertz, D. The MAPLE Package "Janet": I. Polynomial Systems. II. Linear Partial Differential Equations. in: Proc. 6th Int. Workshop on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing, Passau , 2003. Siehe auch http://wwwb.math.rwth-aachen.de/Janet Chyzak, F., Quadrat, A. and Robertz, D. Linear control systems over Ore algebras. Effective algorithms for the computation of parametrizations. in: Proceedings of the IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems (TDS03), INRIA Rocquencourt, France

69. Science News Online (8/14/99): Ivars Peterson's MathTrek: Matrices, Circles, And The career of olga Taussky Todd (1906–1995) served as a worthy model for the In memoriam olga tausskytodd. Notices of the American Mathematical http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc99/8_14_99/mathland.htm

Recently on MathTrek: Averting Instant Insanity (8/7/99) Juggling by Design (7/31/99) Mersenne Megaprime (7/24/99) MathTrek Archives... Matrices, Circles, and Eigenthings Last month, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, Calif., hosted the Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women. The conference showcased the research of outstanding women in mathematics and highlighted various issues of concern to young women entering the mathematical research communty. The career of Olga Taussky Todd (1906–1995) served as a worthy model for the participants. Taussky was born in Olmütz, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now in the Czech Republic. As a child, she loved writing, especially essays, poems, and also music. In high school, her interests turned to science, particularly astronomy, then finally to mathematics. Taussky studied at the University of Vienna, focusing on number theory in her doctoral dissertation. By 1937, she was working at the University of London, where she met and married mathematical analyst John Todd. Though Taussky’s main interest was initially number theory, she was to become what she later termed "a torchbearer" for another branch of mathematics known as matrix theory.

70. Olga Taussky Todd Celebration Of Careers In Mathematics For Women Abstracts of Plenary Talks at the olga Taussky Todd Celebration Remembrances ofolga Taussky Todd, and her impact on me and on her many students http://www.awm-math.org/olgacelebration.html

Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women July 16-18, 1999 MSRI, Berkeley, California When. The Celebration was held July 16-18, 1999, at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley, California. The conference wasorganized by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) with base funding from the National Security Agency (NSA) ; additional support was provided by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) , the U.S. Department of Energy . The scientific community was invited to talks. Related Links. Abstracts of Plenary Talks at the Olga Taussky Todd Celebration The Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women: Part I The Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women: Part II AWM Photo Gallery: Olga Taussky Todd Celebration Format. Featured lectures showcased the research of outstanding women in mathematics. Talks and discussions by established mathematicians with careers in government, business, industry and academia focused on contemporary issues of concern to young women, highlighting non-traditional career paths for mathematicians. The primary goals of the celebration were to assist, encourage, and inspire the graduate student and recent Ph.D. participants, to provide a forum for networking between mathematicians at different career stages, and to promote the achievements of women in mathematics. Senior investigators provided role models and offered mentoring for the beginning women mathematicians. The graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s who participated were to find in the legacy of Olga Taussky Todd a realistic model and worthy goals for their lives.

71. The Olga Taussky Todd Celebration Of Careers In Mathematics For Women: Part I Abstracts of Plenary Talks at the olga Taussky Todd Celebration The Celebrationfeatured the legacy of olga Taussky Todd (19061995), http://www.awm-math.org/newsletter/199911/Ottpart1.html

Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women Abstracts of Plenary Talks at the Olga Taussky Todd Celebration The Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women: Part II AWM Photo Gallery: Olga Taussky Todd Celebration The Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women: Part I From AWM Newsletter , Vol. 29, No. 6, November-December 1999. By Bettye Anne Case, Florida State University. Part II will appear in the January-February issue of this Newsletter. Papers based on the plenary talks will be featured in a volume about AWM; the plan of the book will be described in that Newsletter. The Celebration featured the legacy of Olga Taussky Todd (1906-1995), who was an inspiration to a number of the mathematicians present. Among her many other achievements, Taussky Todd presented the Noether Lecture of the Association for Women in Mathematics in 1981. This AWM-organized conference drew over one hundred women and men mathematicians to the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley for three days of information, inspiration, camaraderie. There was agreement that the primary goals of the celebration were well met: to assist, encourage and inspire the participating beginning mathematicians, to provide a forum for networking between mathematicians at different career stages and to promote the achievements of women in mathematics. Forty of the participants were women graduate students or recent Ph.D.'s. Most of them presented their mathematical research in three poster sessions. Their enthusiasm and thoughtful questions were a motivation for the senior mathematicians; as an organized feature of the program, junior and senior women were paired in mentoring activities.

72. Olga Taussky Todd - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia olga Taussky Todd (August 30, 1906, Olomouc, then AustriaHungary - October 7,1995, Pasadena, California) was a mathematician. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Taussky_Todd

Wikimedia needs your help in the final days of its fund drive. See our fundraising page The Red Cross and other charities also need your help. Olga Taussky Todd From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Olga Taussky Todd August 30 Olomouc , then Austria-Hungary October 7 Pasadena California ) was a mathematician. She worked first in algebraic number theory , with a doctorate at the University of Vienna supervised by Phillip Furtw¤ngler . 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 Short biography Narrative overview Czech biographical article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it This biographical article about a mathematician is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it Retrieved from " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_Taussky_Todd Categories Czech people stubs Mathematician stubs ... Mathematicians Views Article Discussion Edit this page History Personal tools Create account / log in Navigation Main Page Community portal Current events Recent changes ... Donations Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages ... Permanent link This page was last modified 03:13, 29 July 2005.

73. The Beginning Years olga Taussky Todd was born on August 30, 1906, in Olmutz, in the AustroHungarianEmpire. Collection of articles dedicated to olga Taussky Todd. http://www.mathsci.appstate.edu/~sjg/womeninmath/michelle/taussky.html

The Beginning years In her final year of high school, the students were required to do a creative research project. They could write an essay on any subject they chose. Olga wrote on a nontraditional topic for women, entitled "From the binomial to the polynomial theorem". She wrote on Pascal pyramids of all dimensions, instead of the Pascal triangle, and other works connected with binomial coefficients. Her father died her last year in high school, leaving the family with no money. She began tutoring more, and contracted work from the vinegar factory. She was struggling to find a way in mathematics, when a conversation occurred that changed her life. She was talking to an older women that was saying how she wished she would have gone into math. Olga did not want to feel like that when she was older, so she began to follow her calling (Taussky-Todd 1985:314-315). Her University Studies Post Doctoral work in Vienna and Gottingen In America Work in Great Britain and Ireland Working for the National Bureau of Standards Caltech Her main research now focused on commutativity and generalized commutativity of finite matrices, and integral matrices. She also was as algebraist, in that she worked on number theory and matrix theory. She became an admirer of the Japanese work that was being done at the time. She especially admired Takagi and his work in class field theory. She went to a number theory conference in Kyoto (Taussky-Todd 1985:332-334, Luchins:230).

74. THE OLGA TAUSSKY TODD CELEBRATION OF CAREERS IN MATHEMATICS FOR WOMEN July 1618, 1999. MSRI, Berkeley, California. Photo of olga Taussky Todd olga Taussky Todd Celebration, c/o MSRI, 1000 Centennial Drive, http://www.msri.org/activities/events/9899/ccmw/

75. Richard Varga At MSRI - Remembrances Of Olga Taussky Todd, And Her Richard Varga Remembrances of olga Taussky Todd, and her impact on me and onher many students. http://www.msri.org/publications/ln/msri/1999/awm99/varga/1/

76. Olga Taussky Todd olga Taussky Todd. From Richard S. Varga varga@mcs.kent.edu ; Subject olgaTaussky Todd; Date Mon, 9 Oct 1995 082412 0400 (EDT) http://www.csc.fi/math_topics/Mail/NANET95/msg00740.html

Prev Next Index Olga Taussky Todd From varga@mcs.kent.edu Subject : Olga Taussky Todd Date : Mon, 9 Oct 1995 08:24:12 -0400 (EDT) I am sad to report the death of Olga Taussky Todd on Saturday, October 7, 1995 in Pasadena, CA. She was 89 years of age. She had been, in my opinion, the most famous living female mathem- atician in the world. She is survived by her husband, John Todd, an eminent numerical analyst. Richard S. Varga. Richard S. Varga Institute for Computational Mathematics Kent State University, Kent Ohio 44242 e-mail varga@mcs.kent.edu office tel 216-672-2430x113 home tel 216-842-2763 fax 216-672-7824 Prev: - NA Digest V. 95, # 41 Next: Need Optimization Digest Index: Numerical Analysis Digest 1995

77. SIAM News The career of olga Taussky Todd (19061995) is a prime example of the circuitous The olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women, http://www.siam.org/siamnews/01-00/paths.htm

SIAM News Quick Search: A career marked by dramatic and often discouraging twists and turns made Olga Taussky Todd (1906-1995) a fitting source of inspiration for an AWM workshop designed to illustrate the many possible forms a successful career in the mathematical sciences can take. "Math with an Attitude": Linda Petzold (SIAM's newly elected vice president at large) described a career that took her to a national lab and an ill-fitting academic department before she found "the right match," again in academia, in an engineering department. Meandering Mathematical Career Paths Dianne P. O'Leary From a distance, it can appear that all successful mathematicians follow simple career paths, striding up the ladder in their chosen university, government laboratory, or industrial environments. The Association for Women in Mathematics decided to honor Olga Taussky Todd by organizing a conference in her memory. The Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women, held July 16-18 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, was organized by Bettye Ann Case (Chair), Carolyn Gordon, Gail Ratcliff, Jean Taylor, Sylvia Wiegand, and me. Many of the approximately 140 attendees were graduate students and recent PhDs.

78. Sample Chapter For Case, B.Anne And Leggett, A.M., Eds.: Complexities: Women In It is appropriate to begin with reminiscences of olga Taussky Todd, Based on Remembering olga Taussky Todd, AWM Newsletter 26(1), 1996, 79, http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7915.html

SEARCH: Keywords Author Title More Options Power Search Search Hints E-MAIL NOTICES NEW IN PRINT E-BOOKS ... HOME PAGE Complexities: Women in Mathematics Edited by Bettye Anne Case and Anne M. Leggett Book Description Endorsements Class Use and other Permissions . For more information, send e-mail to permissions@pupress.princeton.edu This file is also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format Chapter 1 FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY The women appearing in this chapter, inspirations for many currently active mathematicians, received their doctorates before 1960. Their stories look back through time, arranged in reverse chronological order of the women's births. It is appropriate to begin with reminiscences of Olga Taussky Todd, namesake of the conference that spurred the compilation of this book. Her charmingly informal remarks are augmented by excerpts from a memorial article about her. Later in the book, two articles give more formal descriptions of her life and work. Julia Robinson's mathematics led to her election as the first woman mathematician in the National Academy of Sciences (NAS); she was also the first woman elected president of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). In 1980 she was the second woman to present the prestigious AMS Colloquium Lectures. The first woman to do so, fifty-three years earlier in 1927, was Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler. Among the few women who earned a doctorate in mathematics in the first half of the twentieth century, Pell Wheeler was singular in receiving such recognition for her mathematics. She is likely best known for her active mentoring of other women. While chair of the mathematics department at Bryn Mawr College, she brought two refugees to her institution: Emmy Noether, then an established mathematician, and also, to work with Noether, the young Taussky Toddthe women whose lives bracket this chapter. Noether is indisputably among the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century. In recognition of the importance of her work, the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) has sponsored since 1980 the annual Noether Lecture series at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (JMM). Robinson and Taussky Todd are two of the outstanding senior women mathematicians who have delivered these lectures.

79. AMCA: Conferences olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women. July 1618, 1999.Berkeley, CA, USA. Mathematics. Host Mathematical Sciences Research http://at.yorku.ca/cgi-bin/amca-calendar/d/faaf00

Atlas Mathematical Conference Abstracts Conferences Abstracts Organizers ... About AMCA Olga Taussky Todd Celebration of Careers in Mathematics for Women July 16-18, 1999 Berkeley, CA, USA Mathematics Host: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Sponsor: Association for Women in Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, National Security Agency (NSA), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Homepage: http://www.awm-math.org/olgacelebration.html Email: awm@math.umd.edu Organizers: B. Case (Chair), C. Gordon, D. O'Leary, G. Ratcliff, J. Taylor, S. Wiegand Deadline for abstacts: February 18, 1999 Description: Lectures will showcase the research of outstanding women in mathematics; talks and discussions by mathematicians with careers in government, business, industry and academia will focus on contemporary issues of concern. The primary goals of the celebration are to assist, encourage, and inspire the graduate student and recent Ph.D. participants, to provide a forum for networking between mathematicians at different career stages, and to promote the achievements of women in mathematics. Senior investigators will provide role models and offer mentoring. The beginning mathematicians who participate will find in the legacy of Olga Taussky a realistic model and worthy goals for their lives. The scientific community is invited to talks. Mail Address: Date received: January 07, 1999

80. CIM Bulletin #13: An Interview With Thomas J. Laffey olga Taussky Todd wrote to me in connection with some questions arising in apaper I wrote on simultaneous triangularization and thus began what was for me http://at.yorku.ca/i/a/a/h/45.htm

Topology Atlas Document # iaah-45 from CIM Bulletin #13 An Interview with Thomas J. Laffey Professor Laffey, please tell us about your formative years. How did you go into Mathematics, and what are your recollections of your university studies? You went on to study with Ledermann for your doctorate. Thomas J. Laffey I already had a Masters degree from UCG, so when I went to Sussex in September 1966, I was not required to do any further coursework, and I immediately began research. In the book by Curtis and Reiner entitled "Representation theory of finite groups and associative algebras", I was greatly impressed by Jordan's Theorem which states that there is a function J defined on the natural numbers with the property that if G is a finite subgroup of the group GL(n, C ) of invertible n x C C What did you do after you obtained your PhD? How did your research interests evolve over the years? You have been heavily involved in mathematical competition activities. What are your thoughts and experience concerning Mathematical Olympiads for the young? Can you give us a short overview of the Irish university system?

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