Liudmila Vsévolovna Kéldysh, Soviet mathematics

With an unusual pedagogical skill, [Liudmila Kéldysh] knows how to lead a student from solving the simplest problems to independent work. P. S. Aleksandrov, A. B. Sosinskii, A. V. Chernavskii, M. A. Shtan’ko (1974). Liudmila Vsévolovna Kéldysh. Source: Russian Mathematical Surveys.Liudmila Vsévolovna Kéldysh was born in Oremburg, Russia, on March 12, 1904. She was the eldest daughter (of seven) of Maria Aleksándrovna Skvortsova and Vsévolod Mikh…