Olga Oleinik

Olga Arsenievna Oleinik
Olga Arsenievna Oleinik in Nice, 1970
Born(1925-07-02)2 July 1925
Died13 October 2001(2001-10-13) (aged 76)
Moscow, Russia
NationalitySoviet
Alma materMoscow State University, 1954 (PhD)
Known forTheory of elasticity, partial differential equations, boundary layer theory, weak solutions of nonlinear differential equations
Awards1952 Chebotarev Prize, 1988 USSR State Prize, 1995 Petrowsky Prize, Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMoscow State University
Doctoral advisorIvan Petrovsky

Olga Arsenievna Oleinik (also as Oleĭnik) HFRSE (Russian: О́льга Арсе́ньевна Оле́йник) (2 July 1925 – 13 October 2001) was a Soviet mathematician who conducted pioneering work on the theory of partial differential equations, the theory of strongly inhomogeneous elastic media, and the mathematical theory of boundary layers. She was a student of Ivan Petrovsky. She studied and worked at the Moscow State University.

She received many prizes for her remarkable contributions: the Chebotarev Prize in 1952; the State Prize 1988; the Petrowsky Prize in 1995; and the Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1995. Also she was member of several foreign academies of sciences, and earned several honorary degrees.

Life

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On 2 May 1985 Olga Oleinik was awarded the laurea honoris causa by the Sapienza University of Rome, jointly with Fritz John.[1]

Work

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Research activity

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She authored more than 370 mathematical publications and 8 monographs, as the sole author or in collaboration with others: her work covers algebraic geometry, the theory of partial differential equations where her work enlightened various aspects, elasticity theory and boundary layers theory.

Teaching activity

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She was an enthusiast and very active teacher, advising the thesis of 57 "candidates".

Selected publications of Olga Oleinik

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ See (Vernacchia-Galli 1986, pp. 845–855).

References

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Biographical and general references

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Scientific references

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  • Radkevich, E. V. (2009), "Equations with nonnegative characteristic form. I", Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 158 (3): 297–452, doi:10.1007/s10958-009-9394-2, MR 2675370, S2CID 122736904, Zbl 1200.35158. This monograph consists of two volumes and is devoted to second-order partial differential equations (mainly, equations with nonnegative characteristic form). A number of problems of qualitative theory (for example, local smoothness and hypoellipticity) are presented, and the work of many contributors, like Olga Oleinik, Gaetano Fichera, the Author himself and others area thoroughly reviewed.
  • Radkevich, E. V. (2009), "Equations with nonnegative characteristic form. II", Journal of Mathematical Sciences, 158 (4): 453–604, doi:10.1007/s10958-009-9395-1, MR 2675371, S2CID 189871177, Zbl 1200.35157. This monograph consists of two volumes and is devoted to second-order partial differential equations (mainly, equations with nonnegative characteristic form). A number of problems of qualitative theory (for example, local smoothness and hypoellipticity) are presented, and the work of many contributors, like Olga Oleinik, Gaetano Fichera, the Author himself and others area thoroughly reviewed.
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