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| Sofya Kovalevskaya[1] | |
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| Born | 15 January 1850 Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Died | 10 February 1891 (aged 41) Stockholm, Sweden |
| Fields | Mathematics, Mechanics |
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| Alma mater | University of Göttingen (PhD; 1874) |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Weierstrass |
| Known for | Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem Kovalevskaya top |
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]
Notes
- ↑ There are several alternative transliterations of her name. She herself used Sophie Kowalevski (or occasionally Kowalevsky) in her academic publications.
- ↑ "Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya.". Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition.. Encyclopædia Britannica. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/323006/Sofya-Vasilyevna-Kovalevskaya. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
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- Cooke, Roger (1984).The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya (Springer-Verlag) Template:Isbn
- Kennedy, Don H. (1983). Little Sparrow, a Portrait of Sofia Kovalevsky. Athens: Ohio University Press. Template:Isbn
- Koblitz, Ann Hibner (1993). A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary. Lives of women in science, 99-2518221-2 (2., revised ed.). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. P. Template:Isbn
- Koblitz, Ann Hibner (1987). Sofia Vasilevna Kovalevskaia in Louise S. Grinstein (Editor), Paul J. Campbell (Editor) (1987), Women of Mathematics: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, New York,
, https://archive.org/details/womenofmathemati0000unse
- The Legacy of Sonya Kovalevskaya: proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, held October 25–28, 1985. Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 64. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. 1987. Template:Isbn
Other websites
- Sofya Kovalevskaya at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Sofia Kovalevskaya", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
- O'Connor, John J; Edmund F. Robertson "Sofya Kovalevskaya". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- Women's History - Sofia Kovalevskaya
- Brief biography of Sofia Kovalevskaya by Yuriy Belits. University of Colorado at Denver, March 17, 2005.
- Biography (in Russian)
- Association for Women in Mathematics
- Works by or about Sofya Kovalevskaya in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Sof'i Kovalevskoy street, Saint Petersburg (OpenStreetMap)
- Sof'i Kovalevskoy street, Moscow (OpenStreetMap)
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