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Marguerite Straus Frank

was born 97 years ago

8 September 1927

Marguerite Straus Frank is famed both for her remarkable new discoveries of simple Lie algebras, and her solution to the problem of maximising a concave quadratic function, now known as the Frank-Wolfe algorithm.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Frank_Marguerite/