Lorraine Foster
| Lorraine L. Foster | |
|---|---|
 Dr. Foster in 1964. (Photo from the Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection, UCLA Library Digital Collections) | |
| Born |
December 25, 1938 Culver City, California |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | B.A. 1960, Occidental College; Ph.D. 1964, California Institute of Technology |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Employer | California State University, Northridge |
Lorraine Lois Foster (December 25, 1938, Culver City, California) is an American mathematician. In 1964 she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from California Institute of Technology.[1] Her thesis advisor at Caltech was Olga Taussky-Todd.[2]
Born Lorraine Lois Turnbull, she attended Occidental College where she majored in physics. She was admitted to Caltech after receiving a Woodrow Wilson Foundation fellowship. In 1964 she joined the faculty of California State University, Northridge. She works in number theory and the theory of mathematical symmetry.
Selected Bibliography
- Foster, L. (1966). On the characteristic roots of the product of certain rational integral matrices of order two. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 18(1), 97–110. http://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1966.18.97
- Brenner, J. L., & Foster, L. L. (1982). Exponential diophantine equations. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 101(2), 263–301.
- Alex, L. J., & Foster, L. L. (1983). On diophantine equations of the form $1 + 2^a = p^b q^c + 2^d p^e q^f$. Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 13(2), 321–332. http://doi.org/10.1216/RMJ-1983-13-2-321
- Alex, L. J., & Foster, L. L. (1985). On the Diophantine equation $1 + p^a = 2 + 2^b + 2^c p^d$. Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 15(3), 739–762. http://doi.org/10.1216/RMJ-1985-15-3-739
- Foster, L. L. (1990). On the symmetry group of the dodecahedron. Mathematics Magazine, 63, 106–107.
- Foster, L. L. (1991). Convex polyhedral models for the finite three-dimensional isometry groups. In G. M. Rassias (Ed.), The Mathematical Heritage of C F Gauss (pp. 267–281). Singapore: World Scientific.
- Alex, L. J., & Foster, L. L. (1992). On the Diophantine equation $\bf 1+x+y=z$. Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 22(1), 11–62. http://doi.org/10.1216/rmjm/1181072793
- Alex, L. J., & Foster, L. L. (1995). On the Diophantine equation $w+x+y=z$, with $wxyz=2\sp r3\sp s5\sp t$. Rev. Mat. Univ. Complut. Madrid, 8(1), 13–48.
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