Nina Nikolaevna Uraltseva (born 1934, ) is a Russian mathematician, a professor of mathematics and head of the department of mathematical physics at

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, and the editor-in-chief of the ''Proceedings of the St. Petersburg Mathematical Society''. Her specialty is the study of nonlinear

partial differential equation In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to ho ...

s.Faculty profile
(in Russian), Saint Petersburg State University, retrieved 2015-06-08.. Nina Uraltseva was born on 24 May 1934 in Leningrad, USSR (currently St. Petersburg, Russia), to parents Nikolai Fedorovich Uraltsev, (an engineer) and Lidiya Ivanovna Zmanovskaya (a school physics teacher). She received a diploma in physics from Saint Petersburg State University (then known as Leningrad State University) in 1956. She earned a Ph.D. in 1960 from the same university, under the supervision of Olga Ladyzhenskaya, and completed her D.Sc. (the Soviet equivalent of a

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) in 1964. She joined the faculty of Leningrad State University in 1959, and was promoted to professor in 1968 and department head in 1974. Uraltseva's research on

Hilbert's nineteenth problem Hilbert's nineteenth problem is one of the 23 Hilbert problems, set out in a list compiled by David Hilbert in 1900. It asks whether the solutions of regular problems in the calculus of variations are always analytic. Informally, and perhaps less ...

and

Hilbert's twentieth problem Hilbert's twentieth problem is one of the 23 Hilbert problems set out in a celebrated list compiled in 1900 by David Hilbert. It asks whether all boundary value problems can be solved (that is, do variational problems with certain boundary condi ...

led to her recognition in 1967 by the Chebyshev Prize of the

USSR Academy of Sciences The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991. It united the country's leading scientists and was subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (u ...

, and in 1969 by the

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. Uraltseva was a speaker at the 1970 and 1986

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. A meeting on partial differential equations was held in honor of her 70th birthday at the

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, in June 2005, and in 2006 the Royal Institute of Technology gave her an honorary doctorate. For her 75th birthday, a book on partial differential equations and a special issue of the journal ''Problemy Matematicheskogo Analiza'' were dedicated to her.. A special issue of the journal ''Algebra i Analiz'' commemorated her 85th birthday.

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