Biography:Élisabeth Lutz
Élisabeth Lutz (May 14, 1914 – July 31, 2008) was a French mathematician. The Nagell–Lutz theorem in Diophantine geometry describes the torsion points of elliptic curves; it is named after Lutz and Trygve Nagell, who both published it in the 1930s.[1][L37]
Lutz was a student of André Weil at the University of Strasbourg, from 1934 to 1938. She earned a thesis for her research for him, on elliptic curves over [math]\displaystyle{ p }[/math]-adic fields.[2][3] She completed her doctorate (thèse d’état) on [math]\displaystyle{ p }[/math]-adic Diophantine approximation at the University of Grenoble in 1951 under the supervision of Claude Chabauty; her dissertation was Sur les approximations diophantiennes linéaires [math]\displaystyle{ p }[/math]-adiques.[4]
She became a professor of mathematics at the University of Grenoble.[5]
Selected publications
- Lutz, Élisabeth (1937). "Sur l'équation [math]\displaystyle{ y^2=x^2-Ax-B }[/math] dans les corps [math]\displaystyle{ p }[/math]-adiques". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik 177: 237–247.
References
- ↑ Silverman, Joseph H.; Tate, John (1992). Rational Points on Elliptic Curves. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. New York: Springer-Verlag. p. 47. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-4252-7. ISBN 0-387-97825-9.
- ↑ Knapp, Anthony W. (1999). "André Weil: A Prologue". Notices of the American Mathematical Society 46 (4): 434–439. http://www.ams.org/notices/199904/mem-weil-prologue.pdf.
- ↑ André Weil, Collected Papers vol. I, pp. 538–539
- ↑ Élisabeth Lutz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Liste des professeurs" (in French). Thèse presentée a la faculté des sciences de l'Université de Grenoble. 1970. p. 2. http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Public/44/060/44060263.pdf.
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