Ludmila Bourchtein (also transliterated as Lioudmila Bourchtein) is a Soviet and Brazilian mathematician and textbook author, a professor emerita at the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil. [1] Her research concerns mathematical analysis and conformal mapping. [2]
Bourchtein received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok in 1960, [3] and continued to work at Far Eastern Federal University for 34 years as an assistant, associate, and full professor. [1] Meanwhile, she earned a doctorate through Saint Petersburg State University in 1968, [3] with a dissertation on the solution of functional equations for complex analytic functions on the unit circle. [2]
She joined the Federal University of Pelotas in Brazil in 1997, [4] as an associate professor and later as a full professor, [1] retired in 2010 [4] and was named a professor emerita in 2019. [1] At the Federal University of Pelotas, one of her students was Adriana Neumann de Oliveira, who credits Bourchtein as being her first female role model in mathematics. [5]
With Andrei Bourchtein, Ludmila Bourchtein is the coauthor of books including: