Sofya Kovalevskaya
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]
Sofya Kovalevskaya[1] | |
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| Born | 15 January 1850 |
| Died | 10 February 1891 (aged 41) Stockholm, Sweden |
| 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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Sofya Kovalevskaya Media
The excerpt from the 1850 birth register listing, in Russian Cyrillic, the birth of Sofia on January 3rd (Old Style date).
Sofya Kovalevskaya at 18 years old
Sofya Kovalevskaya in 1890
Kovalevskaya's grave, Norra begravningsplatsen
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.
Further reading
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- Cooke, Roger (1984).The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya (Springer-Verlag) ISBN 0-387-96030-9
- Kennedy, Don H. (1983). Little Sparrow, a Portrait of Sofia Kovalevsky. Athens: Ohio University Press. ISBN 0-8214-0692-2
- 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. ISBN 0-8135-1962-4
- Koblitz, Ann Hibner (1987). Sofia Vasilevna Kovalevskaia in Louise S. Grinstein; Paul J. Campbell, eds. (1987), Women of Mathematics: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, New York, ISBN 978-0-313-24849-8
- 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. ISBN 0-8218-5067-9
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 Archived 2009-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Brief biography of Sofia Kovalevskaya by Yuriy Belits. University of Colorado at Denver, March 17, 2005.
- Biography (in Russian)
- Association for Women in Mathematics Archived 2011-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Works by or about Sofya Kovalevskaya in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Sof'i Kovalevskoy street, Saint Petersburg (OpenStreetMap)
- Sof'i Kovalevskoy street, Moscow (OpenStreetMap)