[5] She did her undergraduate studies at Mount Holyoke College, graduating summa cum laude with an A.B.

she switched to mathematics under the mentorship of Shiing-Shen Chern and then transferred to the University of Warwick and received a second M.Sc.

She completed a doctorate in 1973 from Princeton University under the supervision of Frederick J. Almgren, Jr.[5][1] Taylor joined the Rutgers faculty in 1973, and retired in 2002.

[5][6] She has been married three times, to mathematicians John Guckenheimer and Frederick Almgren, and to financier and science advocate William T.

[8] Encyclopedia Britannica called the mathematical derivation "one of the major triumphs of global analysis".