Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist (born 1850)

Sofya Kovalevskaya

Russian mathematician (1850–1891)

Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world – the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics, the first…