Sofia Kovalevskaya
Roushie mathematician that made noteworthy contreibutions tae analysis, pairtial differential equations an mechanics
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Roushie: Со́фья Васи́льевна Ковале́вская), born Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya (15 January [A.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 Februar 1891), wis a Roushie mathematician that made noteworthy contreibutions tae analysis, pairtial differential equations an mechanics.
Sofia Kovalevskaya | |
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 Sofia Kovalevskaya in 1880 | |
| Born | 15 Januar 1850 Moscow, Roushie Empire |
| Dee'd | 10 Februar 1891 (aged 41) Stockholm, Swaden |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen (PhD; 1874) |
| Kent for | Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics, Mechanics |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral advisor | Karl Weierstrass |
Further readin
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| Wikisource haes the text o the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica airticle Kovalevsky, Sophie. |
- Cooke, Roger (1984).The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya (Springer-Verlag) ISBN 0-387-96030-9
- Kennedy, Don H. (1983). Little Sparrow, a Portrait of Sofia Kovalevsky. Athens: Ohio University Press. ISBN 0-8214-0692-2
- Koblitz, Ann Hibner (1993). A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary. Lives of women in science, 99-2518221-2 (2., revised ed.). New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. P. ISBN 0-8135-1962-4
- Koblitz, Ann Hibner (1987). Sofia Vasilevna Kovalevskaia in Louise S. Grinstein (Editor), Paul J. Campbell (Editor) (1987), Women of Mathematics: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, New York, ISBN 978-0-313-24849-8CS1 maint: extra text: authors leet (link)
- The Legacy of Sonya Kovalevskaya: proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute, held October 25–28, 1985. Contemporary mathematics, 0271-4132 ; 64. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. 1987. ISBN 0-8218-5067-9
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- Sofia Kovalevskaya at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "Sofia Kovalevskaya", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Sofia Kovalevskaya", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
- Women's History - Sofia Kovalevskaya Archived 2009-02-09 at the Wayback Machine
- Brief biography of Sofia Kovalevskaya
- Biography (in Russian)
- Association for Women in Mathematics Archived 2011-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Sof'i Kovalevskoy street, Saint Petersburg (OpenStreetMap)
- Sof'i Kovalevskoy street, Moscow (OpenStreetMap)