Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya

Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
Born	March 7, 1922(1922-03-07) Kologriv
Died	January 12, 2004(2004-01-12) (aged 81) St. Petersburg
Nationality	Soviet–Russian
Fields	Partial differential equations
Institutions	St. Petersburg University
Alma mater	Moscow University
Doctoral advisor	Ivan Petrovsky
Notable students	Nina Uralt'seva
Influenced	Fluid dynamics of the Navier-Stokes equations, Hilbert's nineteenth problem, partial differential equations

Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (Ольга Александровна Ладыженская; March 7, 1922, Kologriv – January 12, 2004, St. Petersburg) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. She was known for her work on partial differential equations (especially Hilbert's 19th problem) and fluid dynamics.^[1] She provided the first rigorous proofs of the convergence of a finite difference method for the Navier-Stokes equations. She was a student of Ivan Petrovsky.^[2] She was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002.

Biography

Ladyzhenskaya was born and grew up in Kologriv. She was the daughter of a mathematics teacher who is credited with her early inspiration and love of mathematics. In October 1937 her father was arrested by the NKVD and soon killed. Young Olga was able to finish high school but, because her father was an "enemy of the people", she was forbidden to enter the Leningrad University.

After Joseph Stalin died in 1953, Ladyzhenskaya presented her doctoral thesis and was given the degree she had long before earned. She went on to teach at the university in Leningrad and at the Steklov Institute, staying in Russia even after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rapid salary deflation for professors.

Notes

1. ^ See reference Bolibruch, Osipov & Sinai 2006.
2. ^ See the biography by Riddle (2010) from the Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College.

Bibliography

• Bolibruch, A.A.; Osipov, Yu.S.; Sinai, Ya.G., eds. (2006), Mathematical Events of the Twentieth Century, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. VIII+545, ISBN 978-3-540-23235-3, MR2179060, Zbl 1072.01002, http://books.google.com/?id=RDfoCQH5PoQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q= 
• Friedlander, Susan; Keyfitz, Barbara (2006), "Olga Ladyzhenskaya and Olga Oleinik: Two Great Women Mathematicians of the 20th Century", in Kuperberg, Krystyna, Women in Mathematics: The Legacy of Ladyzhenskaya and Oleinik - May 18–20, 2006, Berkeley, CA: AWM and MSRI, http://topo.math.auburn.edu/pub/2Olgas-proceedings/pa003-morawetz.pdf, retrieved 1 July 2009 . Some recollections of the authors about Olga Ladyzhenskaya and Olga Oleinik.
• Friedlander, Susan; Lax, Peter; Synge Morawetz, Cathleen; Nirenberg, Louis; Seregin, Gregory; Ural’tseva, Nina; Vishik, Mark (December 2004), "Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (1922–2004)", Notices of the American Mathematical Society 51 (11): 1320–1331, MR2105237, Zbl 1159.01335, http://www.ams.org/notices/200411/fea-olga.pdf .
• Synge Morawetz, Cathleen (2006), "Early Memories of Olga Ladyzhenskaya and Olga Oleinik", in Kuperberg, Krystyna, Women in Mathematics: The Legacy of Ladyzhenskaya and Oleinik - May 18–20, 2006, Berkeley, CA: AWM and MSRI, http://topo.math.auburn.edu/pub/2Olgas-proceedings/pa003-morawetz.pdf, retrieved 1 July 2009 . Some recollections of the author about Olga Ladyzhenskaya and Olga Oleinik.

References

• Ladyzhenskaya, O. A. (1969) [1963], The Mathematical Theory of Viscous Incompressible Flow, Mathematics and Its Applications, 2 (Revised Second ed.), New York–London–Paris–Montreux–Tokyo–Melbourne: Gordon and Breach, pp. XVIII+224, MR0254401, Zbl 0184.52603 .
• Ladyženskaja, O. A.; Solonnikov, V. A.; N. N., Ural'ceva (1968), Linear and quasi-linear equations of parabolic type, Translations of Mathematical Monographs, 23, Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society, pp. XI+648, MR0241821, Zbl 0174.15403, http://books.google.com/books?id=dolUcRSDPgkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true .
• Ladyzhenskaya, Olga A.; Nina N., Uralt'seva (1968), Linear and Quasilinear Elliptic Equations, Mathematics in Science and Engineering, 46, New York and London: Academic Press, pp. XVIII+495, MR0244627, Zbl 0164.13002, http://books.google.com/books?id=XGOMZFUEyb0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true .
• Ladyzhenskaya, O. A. (1985), The Boundary Value Problems of Mathematical Physics, Applied Mathematical Sciences, 49, Berlin–Heidelberg–New York: Springer Verlag, pp. XXX+322, ISBN 0-521-39922-X, MR0793735, Zbl 0588.35003  (translated by Jack Lohwater).
• Ladyzhenskaya, O. A. (1991), Attractors for Semigroups and Evolution Equations, Lezioni Lincee, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. xi+73, MR1133627, Zbl 0755.47049, http://books.google.com/books?id=b_I6AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=true .

External links

• Kuperberg, Krystyna, ed. (2006), Women in Mathematics: The Legacy of Ladyzhenskaya and Oleinik - May 18–20, 2006, Berkeley, CA: AWM and MSRI, http://topo.math.auburn.edu/pub/2Olgas-proceedings/, retrieved 1 July 2009 . The proceedings of a workshop in honour of Olga Ladyzhenskaya and Olga Oleinik.
• Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya at the Mathematics Genealogy Project..
• Riddle, Larry, ed. (December 8, 2010), Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/ladyzhen.htm, retrieved May 5, 2011 . A biography in the Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College.
• St. Petersburg Mathematical Society (2006), Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, http://www.mathsoc.spb.ru/pantheon/ladyzhen/index.html, retrieved June 5, 2011 . Memorial page at the St. Petersburg Mathematical Pantheon.

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Name	Ladyzhenskaya, Olga A.
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Date of birth	March 7, 1922
Place of birth	Kologriv
Date of death	January 12, 2004
Place of death	St. Petersburg