Élisabeth Lutz (May 14, 1914 – July 31, 2008) was a

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mathematician. The

Nagell–Lutz theorem In mathematics, the Nagell–Lutz theorem is a result in the diophantine equation, diophantine geometry of elliptic curves, which describes rational number, rational Torsion (algebra), torsion points on elliptic curves over the integers. It is name ...

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. Lutz was a student of

André Weil André Weil (; ; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998) was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was a founding member and the ''de facto'' early leader of the mathematical Bourbaki group. Th ...

at the University of Strasbourg, from 1934 to 1938. She earned a thesis for her research for him, on elliptic curves over

p

-adic fields. She completed her doctorate (''thèse d’état'') on

p

-adic Diophantine approximation at the University of Grenoble in 1951 under the supervision of

Claude Chabauty Claude Chabauty (born May 4, 1910 in Oran, died June 2, 1990 in Dieulefit) was a French mathematician. Career He was admitted in 1929 to the École normale supérieure in Paris. In 1938 he obtained his doctorate with a thesis on number theory ...

; her dissertation was ''Sur les approximations diophantiennes linéaires

p

-adiques''. She became a professor of mathematics at the University of Grenoble.

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