Summary
Eve Oja (10 October 1948 – 27 January 2019) was an Estonian mathematician specializing in functional analysis. She was a professor at the University of Tartu.
Eve Oja | |
|---|---|
 Eve Oja (2007) | |
| Born | 10 October 1948  |
| Died | 27 January 2019 (aged 70) |
Early life and education edit
Oja was born in Tallinn and studied at the Tartu State University (now the University of Tartu), completing her undergraduate studies in 1972 and earning a doctorate (Cand.Sc.) in 1975.[1] Her dissertation, Безусловные шаудеровы разложения в локально выпуклых пространствах (Unconditional Schauder decompositions in locally convex spaces) was supervised by Gunnar Kangro.[2][3]
Career edit
Oja was on the faculty of the University of Tartu since 1975, with a year (1977-78) teaching in Mali, and another (1980-81) doing postdoctoral research at Aix-Marseille University in France. She served several terms as head of the Institute of Pure Mathematics at the university, and from 2009-15 she headed the Estonian School of Mathematics and Statistics.[4]
She was editor-in-chief of the mathematics journal Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis de Mathematica since 1998.[5]
Recognition edit
Oja was elected to the Estonian Academy of Sciences in 2010.[6] She was also a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.[7]
Death edit
Oja died on 27 January 2019.[8]
References edit
- ^ Eve Oja, Estonian Academy of Sciences, archived from the original on 20 January 2019, retrieved 30 January 2019
- ^ Eve Oja at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Kati Ain; Eve Oja (2012). "A description of relatively (p, r)-compact sets" (PDF). Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis de Mathematica. 16.
- ^ Curriculum vitae, Estonian Research Information System, retrieved 30 January 2019
- ^ "Eve Oja 70", Tartu Ülikooli ajakiri, vol. 9, p. 50, retrieved 30 January 2019
- ^ "Palju õnne, akadeemik Eve Oja", Eesti Ekspress (in Estonian), 18 December 2010
- ^ Curriculum vitae (in Estonian), Estonian Research Information System, retrieved 30 January 2019
- ^ "Suri akadeemik Eve Oja", ERR Novaator (in Estonian), retrieved 30 January 2019