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