Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya

Mathematician, Academic

1922 – 2004

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Who was Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya?

Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was a Soviet and Russian mathematician. She was known for her work on partial differential equations and fluid dynamics. 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. She was awarded the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002.

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Born
Mar 7, 1922
Kologriv
Nationality
  • Soviet Union
Profession
Education
  • Moscow State University
  • Saint Petersburg State University
Died
Jan 12, 2004
Saint Petersburg

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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