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Sofia Kovalevskaya

Also known as Sofya Kovalevskaya, Sofya Kovalevskaia, Sofya Kovalevskaja, Sofya Kovalevsky, Sofia Kovalevskaia, Sofia Kovalevskaja, Sofia Kovalevsky, Sofja Kovalevskaya

19th-century Russian mathematician

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Sofia Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician of the 19th century who made significant contributions to mathematics during a time when women had very limited access to higher education. Her work and life are historically important because she demonstrated that women could excel in advanced mathematics and helped pave the way for greater opportunities for female scientists and scholars.

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Commons category: Sofia Kovalevskaya
date of birth: 1850-01-03
date of death: 1891-02-10
Commons gallery: Sofia Kovalevskaya
birth name: Софья Васильевна Круковская
Commons Creator page: Sofia Kovalevskaya
name in native language: Софья Васильевна Ковалевская

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Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Софья Васильевна Ковалевская; born Korvin-Krukovskaya; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February 1891) was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer of equality for women in mathematics. Kovalevskaya was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, in the modern sense of that term, the first woman in Europe in modern times appointed to a full professorship in mathematics, as well as one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. According to historian of science Ann Hibner Koblitz, Kovalevskaya was "the greatest known woman scientist before the twentieth century".

Historian of mathematics Roger Cooke writes: