What is Sofya Kovalevskaya?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Sofya Kovalevskaya<ref>There are several alternative [[transliteration]]s of her name. She herself used Sophie Kowalevski (or occasionally Kowalevsky) in her academic publications.</ref> |image=File:Sofja_Wassiljewna_Kowalewskaja_1.jpg |birth_date = {{birth date|1850|1|15|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Russian Empire]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|1891|2|10|1850|1|15|df=y}} |death_place = [[Stockholm]], Sweden |fields = Mathematics, Mechanics |workplaces = {{plainlist| * Stockholm University *[[Russian Academy of Sciences]]}} |alma_mater = [[University of Göttingen]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]; 1874) |doctoral_advisor = [[Karl Weierstrass]] |known_for = Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem<br>Kovalevskaya top }} '''Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya''' ({{lang-ru|link=no|Софья Васильевна Ковалевская}}), born '''Sofya Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya''' ({{OldStyleDate|15 January|1850|3 January}} – 10 February 1891), was a Russian mathematician who contributed to [[Mathematical analysis|analysis]], [[partial differential equation]]s and [[mechanics]]. She was a pioneer for [[timeline of women in mathematics#Timeline|women in mathematics]] around the world – the first woman to obtain a doctorate (in the modern sense) in mathematics, the first woman appointed to a [[Professor|full professorship]] in Northern Europe and one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya.|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/323006/Sofya-Vasilyevna-Kovalevskaya |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition.|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=22 October 2011}}</ref> ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==Further reading== {{Wikisource|Century Magazine/Volume 50/Issue 4/Notable Women: Sonya Kovalevsky|An overview of Sofia Kovalevskaya's life and career.}} {{EB1911 poster|Kovalevsky, Sophie}} * Cooke, Roger (1984).''<cite>The Mathematics of