1. Olga Ladyzhenskaya authored more than two hundred scientific publications, including six monographs.
12 Facts About Olga Ladyzhenskaya
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya completed high school in 1939, unlike her older sisters who weren't permitted to do the same.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya was not admitted to the Leningrad State University due to her father's status and attended a pedagogical institute.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya was eventually admitted to Moscow State University in 1943 and graduated in 1947.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya began teaching in the Physics department of the university in 1950 and defended her PhD there, in 1951, under Sergei Sobolev and Vladimir Smirnov.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya received a second doctorate from the Moscow State University in 1953.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya had a love of arts and storytelling, counting writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and poet Anna Akhmatova among her friends.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya was once a member of the city council, and engaged in philanthropic activities, repeatedly risking her personal safety and career to aid people opposed to the Soviet regime.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya suffered from various eye problems in her later years and relied on special pencils to do her work.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya is known for her work on partial differential equations and fluid dynamics.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya analyzed the regularity of parabolic equations, with Vsevolod A Solonnikov and her student Nina Ural'tseva, and the regularity of quasilinear elliptic equations.
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Olga Ladyzhenskaya wrote a student thesis under Ivan Petrovsky and was on the shortlist for the 1958 Fields Medal, ultimately awarded to Klaus Roth and Rene Thom.