Lorraine Foster


Lorraine Lois Foster is an American mathematician. In 1964 she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from California Institute of Technology. Her thesis advisor at Caltech was Olga Taussky-Todd. Foster's Erdos number is 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.. On the characteristic roots of the product of certain rational integral matrices of order two. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 18, 97–110. http://doi.org/10.2140/pjm.1966.18.97
  • Brenner, J. L., & Foster, L. L.. Exponential diophantine equations. Pacific Journal of Mathematics, 101, 263–301.
  • Alex, L. J., & Foster, L. L.. On diophantine equations of the form. Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 13, 321–332. http://doi.org/10.1216/RMJ-1983-13-2-321
  • Alex, L. J., & Foster, L. L.. On the Diophantine equation. Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 15, 739–762. http://doi.org/10.1216/RMJ-1985-15-3-739
  • L. Foster. Finite Symmetry Groups in Three Dimensions, CSUN Instructional Media Center, Jan. 1989.
  • L. Foster. Archimedean and Archimedean Dual Polyhedra, CSUN Instructional Media Center, Feb. 1990. https://www.worldcat.org/title/archimedean-and-archimedean-dual-polyhedra/oclc/63936926&referer=brief_results
  • Foster, L. L.. On the symmetry group of the dodecahedron. Mathematics Magazine, 63, 106–107.
  • Foster, L. L.. Convex Polyhedral Models for the Finite Three-Dimensional Isometry Groups. The Mathematical Heritage of CF Gauss, pp 267–281.
  • L. Foster. The Alhambra Past and Present—a Geometer’s Odyssey Part 1, CSUN Instructional Media Center, December 1991.
  • L. Foster. The Alhambra Past and Present—a Geometer’s Odyssey Part 2, CSUN Instructional Media Center, December 1991. https://www.worldcat.org/title/alhambra-past-and-present-a-geometers-odyssey-parts-1-and-2/oclc/28680624?loc=94043&tab=holdings&start_holding=7
  • Foster, L. L.. Convex polyhedral models for the finite three-dimensional isometry groups. In G. M. Rassias, The Mathematical Heritage of C F Gauss. Singapore: World Scientific.
  • L. Foster. Regular-Faced Polyhedra—an Introduction, CSUN Instructional Media Center, Dec. 1992
  • Alex, L. J., & Foster, L. L.. On the Diophantine equation. Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics, 22, 11–62. http://doi.org/10.1216/rmjm/1181072793
  • Alex, L. J., & Foster, L. L.. On the Diophantine equation, with. Rev. Mat. Univ. Complut. Madrid, 8, 13–48.