It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul
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It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul
Quote: It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul ( Sofia Kovalevskaya )
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was born on January 15, 1850, in Moscow, Russia. And he died February 10, 1891, in Stockholm, Sweden. His Father’s name is Lieutenant General Vasily Vasilyevich Korvin-Krukovsky. Her Mother name Yelizaveta Fedorovna Shubert. She married a young paleontologist, Vladimir Kovalevsky in 1968.
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician, who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations, and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world. Also, she was the first woman to get a doctorate (in the modern sense) in mathematics. she was the first woman appointed to a full professorship in northern Europe. And also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. Kovalevskaya was “the greatest known woman scientist before the twentieth century”
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya also gained a reputation as a writer, an advocate of women’s rights, and a champion of radical political causes. She composed novels, plays, and essays, including the autobiographical Memories of Childhood (1890) and The Nihilist Woman (1892), a depiction of her life in Russia. In 1888 she was awarded the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Sciences for a paper on the rotation of a solid body around a fixed point.
Born: 15 January 1850, Moscow, Russia
Died: 10 February 1891, Stockholm, Sweden
Education: University of Göttingen (1874), Heidelberg University
Children: Sofia Kovalevskaya
Spouse: Vladimir Kovalevsky (m. 1868–1883)
Siblings: Anya Korvin-Krukovskaya, Fedya Korvin-Krukovsky
Parents: Yelizaveta Fedorovna Schubert, Vasily Vasilyevich Korvin-Krukovsky
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