OLGA ARSENJEVNA OLEINIK

摘要

The 2nd of July 2010 would be the 85th birthday of an outstanding figure in contemporary mathematics — Olga Oleinik. Olga Oleinik was born in the Ukrainian town Matusov near Kiev. Being evacuated to the city of Perm during the World War II, she graduated from a secondary school in 1942 and became a student of the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the University of Perm. In 1944, as an exceptionally gifted student, Olga Oleinik was transferred to the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University, which became inseparably connected with her further career. She graduated cum laude in 1947 and continued her studies as a postgraduate at the Institute of Mathematics of the Moscow State university under the supervision of Ivan Georgievich Petrovsky.