Google Doodle celebrates mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya: One of the most influential thinkers of his generation ‘

Russian mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya overcome personal obstacles and politicians and has had a lasting impact on a range of scientific areas, from expectations of time to cardiovascular science and oceanography. Thursday ‘, Google their lives and their achievements celebrated with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 97th birthday. Ladyzhenskaya was known for his studies of partial differential equations. Marshall Slemrod, a mathematician at the University of Wisconsin, the New York Times said: “If you believe your weather, you need to fix the exact equations that have studied.” Born Google has called “one of the most influential thinkers of his generation.” in the rural town Kologriv, more than 400 miles from Moscow, Ladyzhenskaya inherited a love for algebra by her father, a mathematician who came to the Russian nobility. When she was 15, she beats personal tragedy, as his father was executed by the Soviet authorities him as an “enemy of the state.” The mother and sister sells clothes, shoes and soap to food on the table. Despite gains was a place in Leningrad State University with its impressive degrees, Ladyzhenskaya banned from participating due to be “enemy” of his father. After years of teaching mathematics in an orphanage and high school, she was finally given in 1943 on site at the Moscow State University, where he continued his PhD Ladyzhenskaya later went head of the Laboratory of Mathematical Physics Steklov Mathematics at the Institute, and author of more than 250 cards. In 1990 he became head of the Mathematical Society of St. Petersburg, after a member for 39 years. Similarly, in recognition of their impressive contributions to mathematics, Ladyzhenskaya the Lomonosov Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002 as his dissident father was excellent, they do not shy away from publicly criticizing the oppressive Soviet regime, often their safety compromise. expressed his love of literature, friendly political critic Alexander Solzhenytsin Ladyzhenskaya and Anna Akhmatova. Even after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and economic problems that followed, Ladyzhenskaya elected to stay in their homeland. And ‘he died on January 12, 2004 in St. Petersburg at the age of 81
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