Olga Oleinik

Olga Arsenievna Oleinik
Born	2 July, 1925 Kiev
Died	Moscow
Nationality	Ukrainian
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	Chebotarev Prize, USSR State Prize, Lomonosov Prize, Petrowsky Prize, Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Moscow State University
Doctoral advisor	Ivan Petrovsky

Olga Arsenievna Oleinik (July 2, 1925 in Kiev, Ukraine – October 13, 2001, Moscow, Russia) 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. More than 359 mathematical publications are under her name.

She received many prizes for her remarkable contributions: the Chebotarev Prize; the State Prize; the Lomonosov Prize; the Petrowsky Prize; and the Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

See also

• Boundary layer
• Elasticity theory
• Homogenization
• Partial differential equations
• Weak solutions

Bibliography

Kozlov, S.M.; Oleinik, O.A.; Zhikov, V.V. (1994), Homogenization of differential operators and integral functionals, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag, ISBN 3-540-54809-2, Zbl 0838.35001

• Oleinik, Olga A. (1957), "Discontinuous solutions of non-linear differential equations", 'UMN', 12 (3(75)): 3–73, Zbl 0080.07701 {{citation}}: External link in |journal= (help) (in Russian). An important paper where the author describes generalized solutions of nonlinear equation partial differential equations as BV functions.
• Oleinik, O.A.; Shamaev, A.S.; Yosifian, G.A. (1991), Mathematical problems in elasticity and homogeneization, Studies in Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 26, Amsterdam - London - New York - Tokyo: North-Holland, ISBN 0-444-88441-6, Zbl 0768.73003
• Oleinik, O.A.; Samokhin, V.N. (1999), Mathematical models in boundary layer theory, Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Computation, vol. 15, London-Weinheim-New York-Tokyo-Melbourne-Madras: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, ISBN 1-5848-8015-5, Zbl 0928.76002.

External links

• Olga Oleinik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• "Olga Arsen'enva Oleinik", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Olga Oleinik", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews