Sofya Kovalevskaya[1] | |
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Died | 10 February 1891 Stockholm, Sweden | (aged 41)
Alma mater | University of Göttingen (PhD; 1874) |
Known for | Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem Kovalevskaya top |
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Fields | Mathematics, Mechanics |
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Doctoral advisor | Karl Weierstrass |
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Софья Васильевна Ковалевская), born Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya (15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February 1891), was a Russian mathematician who contributed to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world – the first woman to obtain a doctorate (in the modern sense) in mathematics, the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe and one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor.[2]
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