Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya

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Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya, better known as Sofia Kovalevskaya, was a pioneering Russian mathematician and the first major female professor of mathematics in Europe.

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instanceOf academic
human
mathematician
university teacher
writer
academicDegree Doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Göttingen
alsoKnownAs Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Kovalevskaya
surface form: Sofya Kovalevskaya

Sofia Kovalevskaya
surface form: Sofya Kovalevskaya-Korvin

Sofia Kovalevskaya
surface form: Sonya Kovalevsky
birthDate 1850-01-15
birthPlace Moscow Governorate
surface form: Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire

Palibino estate, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire
causeOfDeath pneumonia
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
deathDate 1891-02-10
deathPlace Stockholm
surface form: Stockholm, Sweden
doctoralAdvisor Karl Weierstrass
educatedAt Heidelberg University NERFINISHED
Humboldt University of Berlin
surface form: University of Berlin (informal studies)

University of Göttingen
employer Stockholm University
familyName Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya self-linksurface differs
surface form: Korvin-Krukovskaya
father Vasily Vasilyevich Korvin-Krukovsky
fieldOfWork analysis
celestial mechanics
mathematics
mechanics
partial differential equations
probability theory
givenName Sofya
honouredIn asteroid 1859 Kovalevskaya
crater Kovalevskaya on the Moon
influenced development of women’s higher education in mathematics
languageOfWorkOrName French
German
Russian
mother Yelizaveta Fedorovna Shubert
movement women in science
notableAchievement first major female professor of mathematics in Europe
first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe
notableWork Cauchy–Kovalevskaya theorem
memoirs and autobiographical writings
Nihilist Girl
surface form: novel "Nihilist Girl"

research on the rotation of a rigid body about a fixed point
work on Saturn’s rings
patronymicName Vasilyevna
positionHeld Professor of Mathematics at Stockholm University
sibling Anna Korvin-Krukovskaya
Fyodor Korvin-Krukovsky
spouse Vladimir Kovalevsky

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this entity surface form: Korvin-Krukovskaya