Olga Taussky-Todd

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5 total works indexed

1. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 47,869x

2. PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses

   · 2007 · cited 30,848x

3. ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge

   · 2015 · cited 30,181x

4. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,520x

5. tRNAscan-SE: A Program for Improved Detection of Transfer RNA Genes in Genomic Sequence

   · 1997 · cited 16,023x

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Quotes

• “In spite of my admiration for , I myself left his seminar and even his private circle, to which I had been admitted. I was the youngest in age in the , but I was disappointed that these gatherings could not give me guidance for my work in number theory. Had I realized what Gödel would achieve later, I would not have run away.For Gödel's results show that logic is not a subject that stands alone and is a basis for mathematical thinking; it is in fact part of mathematics.”

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Key facts

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

University of Vienna

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

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

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 Ed Bender

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