Sofya Kovalevskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Sofya Kovalevskaya

Russian mathematician

Date of Birth: 03-Jan-1850

Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia

Date of Death: 10-Feb-1891

Profession: writer, physicist, mathematician, university teacher, academic, novelist

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Sofya Kovalevskaya

  • Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: ????? ?????????? ???????????), born Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya (15 January [O.S.
  • 3 January] 1850 – 10 February 1891), was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions 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.
  • According to historian of science Ann Hibner Koblitz, Kovalevskaia was "the greatest known woman scientist before the twentieth century".Historian of mathematics Roger Cooke writes: ...
  • the more I reflect on her life and consider the magnitude of her achievements, set against the weight of the obstacles she had to overcome, the more I admire her.
  • For me she has taken on a heroic stature achieved by very few other people in history.
  • To venture, as she did, into academia, a world almost no woman had yet explored, and to be consequently the object of curious scrutiny, while a doubting society looked on, half-expecting her to fail, took tremendous courage and determination.
  • To achieve, as she did, at least two major results of lasting value to scholarship, is evidence of a considerable talent, developed through iron discipline. Her sister was the socialist Anne Jaclard. There are several alternative transliterations of her name.
  • She herself used Sophie Kowalevski (or occasionally Kowalevsky) in her academic publications.

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