Sofya Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician, born in Moscow in 1850, who made lasting contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and the mechanics of rotating bodies. Because the university would not let her attend classes, she moved to Berlin in 1870 and studied privately with Karl Weierstrass, whose support gained her a doctorate in mathematics summa cum laude. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in the modern sense and the first woman in modern Europe appointed to a full professorship in mathematics, and one of the first women to work as an editor of a scientific journal. She is remembered as a pioneer of equality for women in mathematics.
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was a Russian mathematician
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15 January 1850
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She finished her career in Sweden.
Mentored By: Karl Weierstrass, Biography, Berlin years
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was a Russian mathematician
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partial differential equations and mechanics
Principal Result: Cauchy-Kovalevskaya Theorem, Mathematics, partial differential equations
Her paper on partial differential equations contains what is now commonly known as the Cauchy
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