Olga taussky todd biography of williams murder

View fifteen larger pictures. Her father, Julius David Taussky, was an industrial chemist who also wrote articles for a newspaper.

Olga Taussky-Todd (August 30, – October 7, ) was an Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician.

Her mother, Ida Pollach, was never trained for anything other than being a housewife and looking after her children. Olga was the middle child of three girls, with three years separating her both from her older sister and from her younger sister. Of her parents she wrote [ 1 ] :- My father was a very interesting man, very active, very creative.

My mother was a country girl When Olga was three years old the family moved to Vienna. There Olga attended primary school and although she did well, her older sister was the star pupil. Olga received the top or second top grade for arithmetic but her favourite subjects were essay writing and grammar.

Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian born mathematician who worked on algebraic number theory and matrix theory.

In addition to her schooling she had private music lessons. When World War I broke out conditions became very difficult indeed in Vienna, there was severe shortages of food and the family were near to starving. In the Taussky family moved again, this time to Linz where Olga's father had a job as director of a vinegar factory which, in addition to vinegar made jams and soft drinks.

Julius Taussky was well qualifed for the job for he had coauthored a text on vinegar with his own father Samuel Taussky in Arriving in Linz in the middle of World War I, life was still hard for them but food, although still scare, was slightly more plentiful than in Vienna. When she was 14 years old Olga entered the high school where she spent a year before studying at the Gymnasium.