Olga Bondareva
Olga Nikolaevna Bondareva was a distinguished Soviet mathematician and economist. She contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, especially game theory.
Bondareva is best known as one of the two independent discoverers of the Bondareva–Shapley theorem.Biography
In 1954 she entered the Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty of Leningrad State University, receiving her kandidat degree in 1963 under the supervision of Nikolai Vorobyov. She defended her doktor nauk degree in 1984 at the Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University.
From October 1959 to April 1972 she worked as a junior researcher, then associate professor, and then a senior researcher at the Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty of Leningrad State University. From June 1972 to July 1984 was a senior researcher at the Economic Faculty of the Leningrad State University, from July 1984 to March 1989 a senior researcher at the Institute of Physics, and from October, 1989 to her death in 1991 a leading researcher of the Mathematics and Mechanics Faculty of Leningrad State University.
She was married to Lev Alexandrovich Gordon, and had two sons: Maxim and Gregory. She was killed while crossing the street in St. Petersburg.
