Google Doodle remembers Russian mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya, celebrates her 97th birth anniversaryMar 7 (AZINS) Google on Thursday remembered Russian mathematician Olga Ladyzhenskaya by creating a doodle, to mark her 97th birthday. Known for her work on partial differential equations and fluid dynamics, Google considered the mathematician as one of the most influential thinkers of her generation.

Google Doodle showed an animated face of the mathematician and displayed equations to remember the thinker. History defines Olga Ladyzhenskaya was inspired by her father, who was also a mathematician and found her interest in Algebra. Unfortunately, she lost her father at the age of 15 when he was executed by Soviet authorities after he was accused of being an 'enemy of the state'.

Rising against all odds, Olga Ladyzhenskaya scored excellently in the secondary school but faced hurdles while getting admission in Leningrad State Universities because of her family name.

After teaching at a secondary school, she got the opportunity to work with renowned mathematician Ivan Petrovsky and grabbed her Ph.D.

After acquiring her Ph.D., she headed the Laboratory of Mathematical Physics at Steklov Mathematical Insitute.

Olga Ladyzhenskaya authored more than 250 papers and her teachings of solving partial differential equations are still even today as well.

She became president of St. Petersburg Mathematical Society in 1990 and was honoured with Lomonosov Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2002.