Russian mathematician. Sofia Kovalevskaya

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Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician and engineer, and the first woman in

Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician and engineer, and the first woman in

the world - a professor of mathematics
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Sofia Kovalevskaya was born 3 (15) January 1850 in Moscow. The

Sofia Kovalevskaya was born 3 (15) January 1850 in Moscow. The

daughter of Lieutenant-General of artillery V. Korvin-Krukovsky and Elizabeth Feodorovna.
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Receipt of women in the Russian higher education institutions was prohibited.

Receipt of women in the Russian higher education institutions was prohibited.

Studying abroad was possible only with the permission of her father or husband. Therefore, Sophia organized a sham marriage with a young scientist Vladimir Kovalevsky.
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In 1869 Kovalevskaya studied at the University of Heidelberg in Koenigsberger,

In 1869 Kovalevskaya studied at the University of Heidelberg in Koenigsberger, and from 1870 to 1874 year at the

University of Berlin K. T. Weierstrass. Under the rules of the university women could not attend lectures. But Weierstrass interested in discovering the mathematical talents of Sophia, led her classes.
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In 1888 - the winner of the Paris Academy of Sciences

In 1888 - the winner of the Paris Academy of Sciences

Borden Prize for the discovery of a third case of classical solvability of the problem of the rotation of a rigid body around a fixed point. The second work on the same subject in 1889 celebrated the prize of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Kovalevskaya elected a corresponding member of the Physics and Mathematics Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences.