Sofia Kovalevskaya

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Sofia Kovalevskaya was a pioneering 19th-century Russian mathematician renowned for her groundbreaking work in analysis and partial differential equations and as one of the first women to hold a full professorship in mathematics.

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instanceOf Russian mathematician
academic
human
mathematician
woman mathematician
writer
academicDegree doctorate in mathematics
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Sofia Kovalevskaya
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Sofia Kovalevskaya
surface form: Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
awardReceived Prix Bordin
Mathematics Prize of the French Academy of Sciences
surface form: Prix de l’Académie des Sciences
birthName Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya
causeOfDeath influenza
countryOfCitizenship Russian Empire
dateOfBirth 1850-01-15
dateOfDeath 1891-02-10
doctoralAdvisor Karl Weierstrass
educatedAt Heidelberg University NERFINISHED
University of Berlin NERFINISHED
University of Göttingen NERFINISHED
employer Stockholm University
ethnicGroup Russian
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fieldOfWork analysis
celestial mechanics
mathematical physics
mathematics
mechanics
partial differential equations
genre autobiographical writing
givenName Sofia
influenced women mathematicians
influencedBy Karl Weierstrass
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned French
German
Russian
memberOf Russian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member)
movement women in science
nativeLanguage Russian
notableAchievement first major Russian female mathematician
first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe
one of the first women to hold a full professorship in mathematics
notableIdea existence and uniqueness of analytic solutions to partial differential equations
notableWork A Russian Childhood
Cauchy–Kovalevskaya theorem
Kovalevskaya top
Nihilist Girl
On the rotation of a solid body about a fixed point
placeOfBirth Moscow Governorate
Russian Empire
placeOfDeath Stockholm
Sweden
positionHeld full professor at Stockholm University
professor of mathematics
residence Berlin
Heidelberg
Stockholm
sexOrGender female
sibling Anna Korvin-Krukovskaya
spouse Vladimir Kovalevsky

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Carl Friedrich Gauss influenced Sofia Kovalevskaya
Niels Henrik Abel influenced Sofia Kovalevskaya