Sofia Kovalevskaya

Sofia Kovalevskaya
Sofia Kovalevskaya in 1880
Born	15 Januar 1850(1850-01-15) Moscow, Roushie Empire
Dee'd	10 Februar 1891(1891-02-10) (aged 41) Stockholm, Swaden
Alma mater	University of Göttingen (PhD; 1874)
Kent for	Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics, Mechanics
Institutions	Stockholm Varsity Roushie Academy o Sciences
Doctoral advisor	Karl Weierstrass

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.

Further readin

• 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

External links

• 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)