Eve Oja (10 October 1948 – 27 January 2019) was an Estonian mathematician specializing in

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. She was a professor at the University of Tartu.

Early life and education

Oja was born in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

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. Her dissertation, ''Безусловные шаудеровы разложения в локально выпуклых пространствах'' (''Unconditional Schauder decompositions in locally convex spaces'') was supervised by Gunnar Kangro.

Career

Oja was on the faculty of the University of Tartu since 1975, with a year (1977-78) teaching in

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, 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. She was editor-in-chief of the mathematics journal ''Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis de Mathematica'' since 1998.

Recognition

Oja was elected to the

Estonian Academy of Sciences Founded in 1938, the Estonian Academy of Sciences ( et, Eesti Teaduste Akadeemia) is Estonia's national academy of science in Tallinn. As with other national academies, it is an independent group of well-known scientists whose stated aim is to ...

in 2010. She was also a member of the

European Academy of Sciences and Arts The European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA, la, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea) is a transnational and interdisciplinary network, connecting about 2,000 recommended scientists and artists worldwide, including 37 Nobel Prize laure ...

Death

Oja died on 27 January 2019.

References

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