Sofiya Ostrovska
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Sofiya Ostrovska (born 1958) is a Ukrainian mathematician interested in probability theory and approximation theory, and known for her research on q-Bernstein polynomials, the q-analogs of the Bernstein polynomials. She has also published works in computer science concerning software engineering. She is a professor of mathematics at Atılım University in Turkey.[1]
Ostrovska was born on 26 September 1958 in Sloviansk, then part of the Soviet Union.[2] Her parents, Larisa Semenovna Kudina and Iossif Ostrovskii, were both mathematicians, and her younger brother Mikhail Ostrovskii, became a mathematics professor at St. John's University (New York City).[3]
She studied mathematics at Kharkov State University (renamed as the National University of Kharkiv in 1999), earning a bachelor's degree in 1977 and master's degree in 1980. She completed her Ph.D. in 1989 at Kyiv State University, again later renamed as the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.[2]
