Shoshana Kamin
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Shoshana Kamin , also referred as S.L. Kamenomostskaya , is a Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

-born Israeli
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

 mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

, working on the theory of parabolic partial differential equation
Parabolic partial differential equation
A parabolic partial differential equation is a type of second-order partial differential equation , describing a wide family of problems in science including heat diffusion, ocean acoustic propagation, in physical or mathematical systems with a time variable, and which behave essentially like heat...

s and related mathematical physics
Mathematical physics
Mathematical physics refers to development of mathematical methods for application to problems in physics. The Journal of Mathematical Physics defines this area as: "the application of mathematics to problems in physics and the development of mathematical methods suitable for such applications and...

 problems: she gave, at the same time and independently of Olga Oleinik, the first proof of the existence and uniqueness of the generalized solution of the three-dimensional
Dimension
In physics and mathematics, the dimension of a space or object is informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it. Thus a line has a dimension of one because only one coordinate is needed to specify a point on it...

 Stefan problem
Stefan problem
In mathematics and its applications, particularly to phase transitions in matter, a Stefan problem is a particular kind of boundary value problem for a partial differential equation , adapted to the case in which a phase boundary can move with time...

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Biography

According to , in the mid-1970s, she left the Soviet Union and went to Tel-Aviv where a group of Soviet Union-born jewish scientists was growing under the wise guidance of Yuval Ne'eman
Yuval Ne'eman
Yuval Ne'eman , was a renowned Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was a minister in the Israeli government in the 1980s and early 1990s.-Biography:...

: at present, she is professor emeritus at the Raymond and Beverly Sackler
Raymond Sackler
Dr Raymond R. Sackler is an American physician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. With his brothers Arthur M. Sackler and Mortimer Sackler he founded the pharmaceutical company LTR Pharmaceutical which later took control of Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin.He received his bachelor of science...

 School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel-Aviv University.
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