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Shoshana Kamin

Shoshana Kamin is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician who works on parabolic partial differential equations and related problems of mathematical physics.

born 1930Proof for the Stefan problemResearch on the porous medium equationWork on nonlinear elliptic equations

Born: 24 December 1930, Moscow
Occupation: mathematician, university teacher
Education: Lomonosov Moscow State University

Shoshana Kamin was born in 1930 in Moscow

Shoshana Kamin was born on December 24, 1930, in Moscow. Her birth name was Susanna L'vovna Kamenomostskaya.

She graduated from Moscow University in 1953. In 1959 she received a candidate of science degree there, with Olga Oleinik as her supervisor.

In the late 1950s she gave the first proof of existence and uniqueness of the generalized solution of the three-dimensional Stefan problem. Oleinik later generalized the proof. She went on to study the porous medium equation and nonlinear elliptic equations.

In 1971 she left the Soviet Union with her two sons. She became a professor at Tel Aviv University, where she is now professor emeritus.