Sofya Yanovskaya

Sofya Yanovskaya was a Soviet mathematician, philosopher and historian, born in Pruzhany in 1896, whose family moved to Odessa soon after. She became a communist while at gymnasium and worked as a party official until 1924, when she began teaching at the Institute of Red Professors. She later worked at Moscow State University until retirement and received her doctoral degree in 1935. She specialized in the history of mathematics, mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics, and is best known for restoring research in mathematical logic in the Soviet Union and for finding, publishing and editing the mathematical manuscripts of Karl Marx, first printed in Russian in 1933.