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Marguerite Straus Frank

lived from 1927 to 2025

Marguerite Straus Frank was 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/