MATHEMATICIAN

Olga Ladyzhenskaya

1922 - 2004

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Olga Ladyzhenskaya has received more than 1,251,097 page views. Her biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Olga Ladyzhenskaya is the 297th most popular mathematician (down from 283rd in 2019), the 659th most popular biography from Russia (up from 678th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Mathematician.

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

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Over the past year Olga Ladyzhenskaya has had the most page views in the with 15,213 views, followed by Russian (8,709), and German (7,885). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are German (222.36%), Greek (194.07%), and Macedonian (104.72%)

Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Olga Ladyzhenskaya ranks 297 out of 1,004. Before her are Helge von Koch, Issai Schur, William George Horner, Yi Xing, Liu Xin, and Vergilius of Salzburg. After her are Kiyosi Itô, Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, Georg Alexander Pick, Giambattista Benedetti, Alan Baker, and Jakow Trachtenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Olga Ladyzhenskaya ranks 124. Before her are Hussein Onn, Bernardin Gantin, Leo Tindemans, Manuel Fraga, Guy Hamilton, and Guy Thys. After her are Juan Antonio Bardem, Pierre Hadot, Alexander Zinoviev, Taro Kagawa, Yuri Averbakh, and Ivry Gitlis. Among people deceased in 2004, Olga Ladyzhenskaya ranks 82. Before her are Masanori Tokita, Harold Shipman, Miki Matsubara, Serge Reggiani, Jean Rouch, and Uta Hagen. After her are Boris Trajkovski, Irina Press, Miklós Fehér, Jerry Orbach, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Russ Meyer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Olga Ladyzhenskaya ranks 659 out of 3,761. Before her are Pavel Alexandrov (1896), Khertek Anchimaa-Toka (1912), Dietrich von Saucken (1892), Georgy Flyorov (1913), Nina Kulagina (1926), and Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia (1861). After her are Sergey Surovikin (1966), Praskovia Saltykova (1664), Konstantin Pobedonostsev (1827), Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov (1933), Zinaida Gippius (1869), and Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Russia

Among mathematicians born in Russia, Olga Ladyzhenskaya ranks 16. Before her are Andrey Markov (1856), Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Nikolay Bogolyubov (1909), Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov (1943), Lev Pontryagin (1908), and Pavel Alexandrov (1896). After her are Igor Ansoff (1918), Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov (1912), Sergei Sobolev (1908), Sergei Novikov (1938), Rudolf Lipschitz (1832), and Kurt Hensel (1861).

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