Google has made a special doodle to honour Russian mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya on her 97th birth anniversary. The doodle celebrates and pay tribute to her life and achievements. She was known for her work on partial differential equations.
Ladyzhenskaya was born in 122 to a town of Kologriv in the erstwhile Soviet Union to a Mathematician father who is credited to inspire her towards mathematics. Her grown-up days hit by tragedy as the Soviet Union government labelled her father as ‘enemy of the people’. And when she was 15 years old, he was arrested by the interior ministry and killed soon. She triumphed all her tragedy but her family name came in between her education as despite having good marks and top grades she was declined an admission in Leningrad University, which is the oldest and famous universities in Russia.
She later attended Moscow State University and taught maths to secondary school students for many years. In Moscow University she studied under famous mathematician Ivan Petrovsky. She remains in Russia even after Soviet Union collapsed. Ladyzhenskaya became a member of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society since 1959 and became its president in 1990. She was awarded with Lomonosov Gold Medal before her death in 2002.