Sofia Kovalevskaya

About

Born

15 January 1850 · Moscow , Russian Empire

Died

10 February 1891 · Stockholm , Sweden

Known for

Cauchy-Kovalevski theorem

Work

Position

Corresponding Member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences · Actress · Advocate · Mathematician · Novelist · Tutor · Playwright · Priest

Area of science

Russian mathematician · Women mathematician

Sofia Kovalevskaya " Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya " ( ) ( – ) was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe
" Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day " is a grant-making program of the Association for Women in Mathematics ( AWM ), funding workshops across the United States which encourage girls to explore mathematics.

Education

Studied at

Stockholm University · University of Heidelberg

Area of science

Social movements · Higher education · Calculus · Computational mathematics · Mechanics

Academic degree

Professor · Certificate of Advanced Studies

Professions and applied sciences

Artillery

Strannoliubskii, a well-known advocate of higher education for women ),
In 1874 she presented three papers—on partial differential equations, on the dynamics of Saturn's Rings of Saturn and on elliptic integrals —to the University of Göttingen as her doctoral dissertation....

Skills & Activities

Ascribed status

Swedish of Romani descent · Swedish of Russian descent

Preference

Socialism · Nihilism

Award

Summa cum laude

Master status

Student

Skill

Sterilization · Business management

Activity

Workshops

Sport

Rotation

This was well before she made her notable contribution of the " Kovalevsky top " to the brief list of known examples of integrable rigid body motion ( see following section )....