Shoshana Kamin (Russian: Шошана Камин, Hebrew: שושנה קמין) (born December 24, 1930),[1] born Susanna L'vovna Kamenomostskaya (Russian: Сусанна Львовна Каменомостская),[1][2] is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician, working on the theory of parabolic partial differential equations and related mathematical physics problems.
Shoshana Kamin | |
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Born | [1] | December 24, 1930
Nationality | Israeli |
Alma mater | Moscow University |
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Doctoral advisor | Olga Arsenievna Oleinik |
Shoshana Kamin graduated from Moscow University in 1953 and earned her "candidate of science" degree from the same university in 1959,[1] under the supervision of Olga Oleinik.[3] She and her two sons left the Soviet Union in the early 1971. After that she became a professor in Tel Aviv University,[4] where she is now professor emeritus.[5]
In the late 1950s, she gave the first proof of the existence and uniqueness of the generalized solution of the three-dimensional Stefan problem.[6] Her proof was generalised by Oleinik.[7]
Later, she made important contributions to the study of the porous medium equation,[8]
and to non-linear elliptic equations.[9]