Sofya Kovalevskaya

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:academic
gptkb:mathematician
gptkb:writer
gptkbp:award gptkb:Prix_Bordin
gptkbp:birthDate 1850-01-15
gptkbp:birthName gptkb:Sofya_Vasilyevna_Korvin-Krukovskaya
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Moscow,_Russian_Empire
gptkbp:children gptkb:Sofia_Kovalevskaya_(daughter)
gptkbp:deathDate 1891-02-10
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Stockholm,_Sweden
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Karl_Weierstrass
gptkbp:education gptkb:University_of_Göttingen
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Stockholm_University
gptkbp:field gptkb:literature
gptkb:mathematics
gptkbp:firstBook first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics (modern sense)
first woman in Europe to hold a full professorship
gptkbp:gender female
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sofya Kovalevskaya
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Anna_Leontievna_Shabanova
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Karl_Weierstrass
gptkb:Joseph_Bertrand
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Cauchy–Kovalevskaya_theorem
gptkb:Kovalevskaya_top
first major Russian female mathematician
work on partial differential equations
gptkbp:language gptkb:French
gptkb:German
gptkb:Russian
Swedish
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Russian_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Swedish_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:Russian
gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Memoirs_of_Childhood
gptkb:Nihilist_Girl
gptkbp:position gptkb:professor
gptkbp:restingPlace gptkb:Norra_begravningsplatsen,_Stockholm
gptkbp:signature Sofya Kovalevskaya signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Vladimir_Kovalevsky
gptkbp:subjectOf biographies
documentaries
films
plays
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Karl_Weierstrass
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5