MATHEMATICIAN

Olga Ladyzhenskaya

1922 - 2004

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Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (Russian: Ольга Александровна Ладыженская, IPA: [ˈolʲɡə ɐlʲɪˈksandrəvnə ɫɐˈdɨʐɨnskəɪ̯ə] ; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Olga Ladyzhenskaya is the 262nd most popular mathematician (up from 297th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from Russia (up from 659th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Olga Ladyzhenskaya ranks 262 out of 1,004. Before her are Richard von Mises, Ibn Yunus, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, Nicolaus II Bernoulli, and Leo Perutz. After her are Aristyllus, Al-Khazini, Eugène Charles Catalan, Lady Byron, Kazimierz Kuratowski, and Eduard Heine.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Olga Ladyzhenskaya ranks 79. Before her are Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Hohenberg, Enrico Berlinguer, Adolfo Celi, Michael Cacoyannis, María Casares, and John B. Goodenough. After her are Gianna Beretta Molla, Jake LaMotta, Denholm Elliott, Richard Hamilton, Jean-Pierre Rampal, and Carlo M. Cipolla. Among people deceased in 2004, Olga Ladyzhenskaya ranks 57. Before her are Theo van Gogh, Norberto Bobbio, Hubert Selby Jr., Franz König, Arthur Hailey, and Robert Merle. After her are Raymond Goethals, Philippe de Broca, Charles Sweeney, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Julia Child, and Uta Hagen.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Olga Ladyzhenskaya ranks 464 out of 3,761. Before her are Vladimir Bekhterev (1857), Roza Shanina (1924), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Pavel Milyukov (1859), Savielly Tartakower (1887), and Nikolay Bobrikov (1839). After her are Sacha Guitry (1885), Lev Gumilyov (1912), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), Mikhail Lazarev (1788), Mikhail Alekseyev (1857), and Alexander Radishchev (1749).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Olga Ladyzhenskaya ranks 13. Before her are Grigori Perelman (1966), Leonid Kantorovich (1912), Alexander Friedmann (1888), Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), and Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943). After her are Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Yakov Sinai (1935), Sergei Novikov (1938), Grigory Margulis (1946), Pavel Alexandrov (1896), and Lev Pontryagin (1908).

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