Sofya Kovalevskaya

Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Софья Васильевна Ковалевская), born Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya (15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February 1891), was a Russian mathematician who contributed to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world – the first woman to obtain a doctorate (in the modern sense) in mathematics, the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe and one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor.^[2]

Sofya Kovalevskaya[1]
Born	(1850-01-15)15 January 1850 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	10 February 1891(1891-02-10) (aged 41) Stockholm, Sweden
Alma mater	University of Göttingen (PhD; 1874)
Known for	Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem Kovalevskaya top
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Mechanics
Institutions	Stockholm University Russian Academy of Sciences
Doctoral advisor	Karl Weierstrass

Notes

1. There are several alternative transliterations of her name. She herself used Sophie Kowalevski (or occasionally Kowalevsky) in her academic publications.
2. "Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya.". Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 22 October 2011.

Further reading

• 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; Paul J. Campbell, eds. (1987), Women of Mathematics: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, New York, ISBN 978-0-313-24849-8
• 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

Other websites

• Sofya Kovalevskaya at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• "Sofia Kovalevskaya", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College
• O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Sofya 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 by Yuriy Belits. University of Colorado at Denver, March 17, 2005.
• Biography (in Russian)
• Association for Women in Mathematics Archived 2011-05-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Works by or about Sofya Kovalevskaya in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Sof'i Kovalevskoy street, Saint Petersburg (OpenStreetMap)
• Sof'i Kovalevskoy street, Moscow (OpenStreetMap)

Related pages

• Timeline of women in mathematics