Olga Arsenievna Oleinik | |
|---|---|
 Olga Arsenievna Oleinik in Nice, 1970 | |
| Born | 2 July 1925 |
| Died | 13 October 2001 (aged 76) Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Soviet |
| Alma mater | Moscow State University, 1954 (PhD) |
| Known for | Theory of elasticity, partial differential equations, boundary layer theory, weak solutions of nonlinear differential equations |
| Awards | 1952 Chebotarev Prize, 1988 USSR State Prize, 1995 Petrowsky Prize, Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Moscow State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Ivan 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.