Sofia Kovalevskaya

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gptkbp:instanceOf mathematician
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:University_of_Göttingen
gptkb:University_of_Paris
gptkb:Stockholm_University
gptkb:University_of_St._Petersburg
gptkbp:awards first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics in modern Europe
gptkbp:born January 15, 1850
gptkbp:children Sofia_Kovalevskaya's_daughter
gptkbp:died February 10, 1891
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Göttingen
gptkb:University_of_Paris
gptkbp:fellowship gptkb:Russian_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Sciences
Svenska Akademien
gptkbp:field mathematics
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sofia Kovalevskaya
gptkbp:influenced theoretical physics
geometry
algebra
mathematical physics
computational mathematics
mathematical modeling
mathematical analysis
mathematical logic
topology
numerical analysis
applied mathematics
mathematical sociology
theory of differential equations
mathematical philosophy
mathematical biology
women's rights in education
mathematical finance
mathematical psychology
theory of mechanics
feminism in science
future generations of female mathematicians
mathematics education for women
mathematical_statistics
mathematical_economics
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Bernhard_Riemann
gptkb:Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
Niels Henrik Abel
gptkbp:knownFor mechanics
differential equations
contributions to analysis
gptkbp:legacy Kovalevskaya's_theorem
Kovalevskaya's_contributions_to_mechanics
Kovalevskaya's_work_on_the_Cauchy_problem
gptkbp:nationality Russian
gptkbp:notableFeature Anna Kovalewska
Maria K. Kovalewska
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Vladimir_Kovalevsky
gptkbp:work gptkb:Kovalevskaya_top
Theory of Partial Differential Equations
On the Rotation of a Solid Body Around a Fixed Point
The_Problem_of_the_Motion_of_a_Rigid_Body
The_Cauchy_Problem_for_Partial_Differential_Equations