Olga Oleinik
Soviet mathematician
Died when: 76 years 103 days (915 months)Star Sign: Cancer
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 in 1952; the State Prize 1988; the 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.
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