Sofya Kovalevskaya
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Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer of equality for women in mathem
Kovalevskaya in 1880
The excerpt from the 1850 birth register listing, in Russian Cyrillic, the birth of Sofia on January 3rd (Old Style date)
The family estate in Polibino where Kovalevskaya was raised; the building now houses a museum which exhibits her personal belongings, manuscripts and books
Kovalevskaya at 18 years
In classical mechanics, the rotation of a rigid body such as a spinning top under the influence of gravity is not, in general, an integrable problem. There are however three famous cases that are inte
Sofya Kovalevskaya
…it, could hardly be less complicated than the revolutions of an irregular solid." This was well before Kovalevskaya's notable contribution of the "Kovalevskaya top" to the brief list of known examples of integrable rigid body motion (see following section). In October 1870, Kovalevskaya moved to Berlin, where she…
Leonhard Euler
Joseph-Louis Lagrange