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History of Scientific Women
Sofia KOVALEVSKY
19th century
Fields:Mathematics
Born: 1850 in Moscow (Russia)
Death: 1891 in Stockholm (Sweden)
Main achievements: Original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics.
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.
She was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor.
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There are several alternative transliterations of her name. She herself used Sophie Kowalevski (or occasionally Kowalevsky), for her academic publications. After moving to Sweden, she called herself Sonya.
Sofia Kovalevskaya (née Korvin-Krukovskaya), was born in Moscow, the second of three children.
Her father, Vasily Vasilyevich Korvin-Krukovsky, was a man of Polish descent and was Lieuten