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 ${\displaystyle p}$-adic fields.^[2][3] She completed her doctorate (thèse d’état) on ${\displaystyle p}$-adic Diophantine approximation at the University of Grenoble in 1951 under the supervision of Claude Chabauty; her dissertation was Sur les approximations diophantiennes linéaires ${\displaystyle p}$-adiques.^[4]

She became a professor of mathematics at the University of Grenoble.^[5]

Selected publications

• Lutz, Élisabeth (1937). "Sur l'équation ${\displaystyle y^{2}=x^{2}-Ax-B}$ dans les corps ${\displaystyle p}$-adiques". Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik. 177: 237–247.