Olga Ladyzhenskaya

Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Olga Ladyzhenskaya
Ольга Ладыженская
	Ladyzhenskaya in 1976
Born	Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya; 7 March 1922; Kologriv, Russian SFSR
Died	12 January 2004 (aged 81); Saint Petersburg, Russia
Nationality	Soviet–Russian
Alma mater	Moscow University
Known for	Finite difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations; Hilbert's nineteenth problem; Ladyzhenskaya–Babuška–Brezzi condition; Ladyzhenskaya's inequality
Awards	Lomonosov Gold Medal (2002); John von Neumann Prize (1998); Noether Lecture (1994); Kovalevskaya Prize (1992); USSR State Prize (1969)
	Scientific career
Fields	Partial differential equations
Institutions	Saint Petersburg University
Doctoral advisor	Ivan Petrovsky; Sergei Sobolev
Notable students	Vladimir Buslaev; Ludvig Faddeev; Varga K. Kalantarov; Nina Uraltseva;

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.