Young Lady Mathematician of the Soviet union. Leader in her sphere at the age of twenty-nine.: At the age of twenty-two - Olga Oleinik passed out with honour at the Physico-Mathematical Department of the Lomohosov State University, Moscow and two years later becomes a Mathematics Instructor. She was a pupil of the famous Soviet Academician I.G. Ex Petrovsky. After finishing a post-graduate course and receiving her Master's degree she began work as a senior researcher at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, and as decent at the Mechanico-Mathematical Department of Moscow University. Olga Oleinik is a specialist in different equations and author of 15 papers. In 1952 the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences awarded her a prize, instituted in honour of the renowned Soviet Mathematician N.G. Chebotarev. Last year she received the degree of Doctor of Physics-Mathematical Sciences for her work on the solution of important and difficult problems in the theory of equations with quotient derivatives. She is the first Soviet woman mathematician to receive this degree at the age of 29.
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