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Sofia Kovalevskaya

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Sofia Kovalevskaya

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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, also listed as Sofia Kovalévskaya, was a person who lived from 1850 to 1891. Her recorded dates of birth are January 15, 1850, and January 3, 1850, while her date of death is February 10, 1891. She is associated with the author name Sofia Kovalévskaya in library records.

According to available data, she has five works listed in one source and one work in another, with "Una nihilista" identified as a top work. Her life and work are referenced by 223 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 11 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
Russian Empire
Place of birth
Moscow
Place of death
Hedvig Eleonora parish
Spouse
Vladimir Kovalevsky
Sibling
Anne Jaclard
Occupation
novelist
Employer
Stockholm University
Languages spoken
Swedish
Native language
Russian
Award
Bordin Prize
Academic degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctoral advisor
Karl Weierstraß
Student of
Leo Königsberger
Field of work
literature
Image
Sofja Wassiljewna Kowalewskaja 1.jpg
Residence
Paris
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place of burial
Norra begravningsplatsen
Commons category
Sofia Kovalevskaya
date of birth
1850-01-03
date of death
1891-02-10
medical condition
influenza
member of
Russian Academy of Sciences
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Sofia Kovalevskaya
birth name
Софья Васильевна Круковская
Commons Creator page
Sofia Kovalevskaya
cause of death
viral pneumonia
manner of death
natural causes
significant person
Anne Charlotte Leffler
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
name in native language
Софья Васильевна Ковалевская
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Encyclopedic overview

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:

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