Olga Ladyzhenskaya

Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Ольга Ладыженская
Ladyzhenskaya in 1976
Born
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya

(1922-03-07)7 March 1922
Died12 January 2004(2004-01-12) (aged 81)
NationalitySovietRussian
Alma materMoscow University
Known forFinite difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations
Hilbert's nineteenth problem
Ladyzhenskaya–Babuška–Brezzi condition
Ladyzhenskaya's inequality
AwardsLomonosov Gold Medal (2002)
John von Neumann Prize (1998)
Noether Lecture (1994)
Kovalevskaya Prize (1992)
USSR State Prize (1969)
Scientific career
FieldsPartial differential equations
InstitutionsSaint Petersburg University
Doctoral advisorIvan Petrovsky
Sergei Sobolev
Notable students

Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (Russian: Ольга Александровна Ладыженская; 7 March 1922 – 12 January 2004) was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and the finite-difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations. She received the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002. She authored more than two hundred scientific publications, including six monographs.