Shoshana Kamin

Shoshana Kamin, born Susanna L'vovna Kamenomostskaya, is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician, working on the theory of parabolic partial differential equations and related mathematical physics problems.

Biography

Shoshana Kamin graduated from Moscow University in 1953 and earned her "candidate of science" degree from the same university in 1959, under the supervision of Olga Oleinik.
She and her two sons left the Soviet Union in the early 1971. After that she became a professor in Tel Aviv University, where she is now professor emeritus.

Contributions

In the late 1950s, she gave the first proof of the existence and uniqueness of the generalized solution of the three-dimensional Stefan problem. Her proof was generalised by Oleinik.
Later, she made important contributions to the study of the porous medium equation,
and to non-linear elliptic equations.

Selected publications

. The earlier account of the research of Shoshana Kamin on the Stefan problem.
. In this paper and in the paper, the first existence and uniqueness proofs for the generalized solution of the three-dimensional Stefan problem are given.
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. According to this is one of the most important papers in the asymptotic theory of the porous medium equation. Also, perhaps for the last time ever, she signed this work with both her present and former surnames, precisely writing "S. Kamin ".

Biographical references

. The "Mathematics in the USSR 1958–1967" is a two–volume continuation of the opus "Mathematics in the USSR during its first forty years 1917–1957" and describes the developments of Soviet mathematics during the period 1958–1967. Precisely it is meant as a continuation of the second volume of that work and, as such, is titled "Biobibliography". It includes new biographies and bibliographies of works published by new Soviet mathematicians during that period, and updates on the work and biographies of scientist included in the former volume, alphabetically ordered with respect to author's surname.
. An almost comprehensive obituary article: its English translation is published in the Russian Mathematical Surveys as.

Scientific references

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. A comprehensive reference updated up to 1962–1963, with a bibliography of 201 items, including also a paragraph of 15 pages sketching the history of the subject