Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
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Olga Alexandrowna Ladyzhenskaya (Ольга Александровна Ладыженская; born March 7, 1922, Kologriv, died January 12, 2004, St. Petersburg) was a Russian mathematician. She was known for her work on partial differential equations especially Hilbert's 19th problem. She was a student of Ivan Petrovsky.
She provided the first rigorous proofs of the convergence of a finite difference method for the Navier-Stokes equations.
[edit] Early Life
Ladyzhenskaya was the daughter of a mathematics teacher who is credited with her early inspiration and love of mathematics. She was born and grew up in Kologriv. In October 1937 her father was arrested by the NKVD and soon killed.
Because her father was an "enemy of the people", Ladyzhenskaya was forbidden to enter the Leningrad University.
[edit] External links
- Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Biography of Ladyzhenskaya - from Agnes Scott College
- Another biography - from the Russian Academy of Sciences
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