Élisabeth Lutz

Élisabeth Lutz (1914 to 2008) was a French mathematician who worked in number theory and Diophantine geometry. She is named in the Nagell-Lutz theorem, which describes the torsion points of an elliptic curve and which she and Trygve Nagell each published in the 1930s. She studied under André Weil at the University of Strasbourg from 1934 to 1938 and wrote a thesis on elliptic curves over p-adic fields. She completed her state doctorate at the University of Grenoble in 1951 under Claude Chabauty, with a dissertation on linear p-adic Diophantine approximation, and then became a professor of mathematics at Grenoble.