Lorraine Foster
American mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1938 · age 87
Lorraine Lois Foster is an American mathematician. In 1964 she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from California Institute of Technology. Her thesis advisor at Caltech was Olga Taussky-Todd. Foster's Erdos number is 2.
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Academics
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Born 1938 · age 87
