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Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician

Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (January 15, 1850 - February 10, 1891) was a Russian mathematician. After two years of mathematical studies at Heidelberg under such teachers as Hermann von Helmholtz, Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen, she moved to Berlin, and took private lessons with Karl Weierstrass, as the university would not even allow her to audit classes. In 1874 she presented three papers - on partial differential equations, on the dynamics of Saturn's rings and on elliptic integrals - to the University of Göttingen as her doctoral dissertation. This earned her a doctorate in mathematics summa cum laude and became the first woman in Europe to hold that degree. In 1883 she secured a position as a privat-docent at Stockholm University in Sweden. The following year she was appointed to a five-year position as "Professor Extraordinarius" and became the editor of Acta Mathematica. In 1888 she won the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Science for her groundbreaking paper On the Rotation of a Solid Body about a Fixed Point. In 1889 she was appointed Professor Ordinarius at Stockholm University, the first woman to hold such a position at a northern European university. She died of influenza in 1891 at the age of 41.
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Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician
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Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (January 15, 1850 - February 10, 1891) was a Russian mathematician. After two years of mathematical studies at Heidelberg under such teachers as Hermann von Helmholtz, Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen, she moved to Berlin, and took private lessons with Karl Weierstrass, as the university would not even allow her to audit classes. In 1874 she presented three papers - on partial differential equations, on the dynamics of Saturn's rings and on elliptic integrals - to the University of Göttingen as her doctoral dissertation. This earned her a doctorate in mathematics summa cum laude and became the first woman in Europe to hold that degree. In 1883 she secured a position as a privat-docent at Stockholm University in Sweden. The following year she was appointed to a five-year position as "Professor Extraordinarius" and became the editor of Acta Mathematica. In 1888 she won the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Science for her groundbreaking paper On the Rotation of a Solid Body about a Fixed Point. In 1889 she was appointed Professor Ordinarius at Stockholm University, the first woman to hold such a position at a northern European university. She died of influenza in 1891 at the age of 41.
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