Background
Hudson was born in Cambridge where her father, William Henry Hoare Hudson, was a fellowship Her mother was Mary (born Turnball) and she died when Hudson and her three siblings were young.
Hudson was born in Cambridge where her father, William Henry Hoare Hudson, was a fellowship Her mother was Mary (born Turnball) and she died when Hudson and her three siblings were young.
Hudson was interested in the link between mathematics and her religious beliefs. Her father took on the parenting role and she published a simplified Euclidean proof aged ten in the journal Nature. She was also awarded Master of Arts and Doctor of Science degrees by Trinity College, Dublin.
Most of Hudson"s research was in the area of pure mathematics concerned with surfaces and plane curves, her special interest was in cremona transformation.
Her monograph Ruler and Compasses was well-received as "a welcome addition to the literature on the boundary between elementary and advanced mathematics". In 1917 she joined an Air Ministry subdivision undertaking aeronautical engineering research, where she applied pioneering work on the application of mathematical modelling to aircraft design for which she was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1919.
As a distinguished mathematician she was one of the few women of her time to serve on the council of the London Mathematical Society.