Lev Vasilyevich Ovsyannikov

Lev Vasilyevich Ovsyannikov , Russian Лев Васильевич Овсянников , English transcription Lev Vasilievich Ovsyannikov, (* 22. April 1919 in Vasilsursk , Nizhny Novgorod Oblast , † 23. May 2014 in Novosibirsk ) was a Russian mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics.

Ovsjannikow received his doctorate from Lomonosov University in 1949 . He taught at the Novosibirsk State University , where he headed the Faculty of Mathematics in 1968/69. From 1977 to 1986 he was director of the Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Siberian Department of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk.

Ovsjannikow dealt with equations of gas dynamics and other applied problems such as fluid movement with free boundary conditions and was a pioneer in the classification of the solution of partial differential equations according to group theoretic methods. In 1962 he classified the solutions of the Euler equations according to symmetries under Lie groups .

In 1965 he became a corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He received the Lenin Prize (1958) and the State Prize of the USSR.

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SURNAME	Ovsjannikow, Lev Wassiljewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ovsyannikov, Lev
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet or Russian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 22, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vasilsursk
DATE OF DEATH	May 23, 2014
Place of death	Novosibirsk

[1] Lew Wassiljewitsch Owsjannikow in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

[Orden-2] Lev Ovsyannikov on the official website of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Retrieved June 18, 2018 (Russian).