Sofya Kovalevskaya

When I came to Zurich in 1872 and became acquainted with some of the students, I was astonished to see quite young girls who were studying at the polytechnicum solving intricate problems of the theory of heat with the aid of the differential calculus as easily as if they had had years of mathematical training.

One of the Russian girls who studied mathematics under Weierstrass at Berlin, Sophie Kovalevsky, became a mathematician of high repute and was invited to a professorship at Stockholm.

She was, I believe, the first woman in our century to hold a professorship in a university for men.

She was so young that in Sweden no one wanted to call her anything but by her diminutive name of Sonia.

as the infamous Mademoiselle du Motel had done to group theory godfather Evariste Galois back in 1832.

This is, I think, the second time that Kovalevskaya has been brought up, but we didn't really cover much to do with her, so I figured why not just throw another historical character into this pile.

And Sofia Kovalevskaya was a Russian mathematician who contributed to fields of analysis, mathematics, and partial differential equations.

She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in the modern sense of the term.

She was also the first woman in Europe to be given a full professorship in mathematics and work as an editor for a scientific journal.

When I came to Zurich in 1872 and became acquainted with some of the students, I was astonished to see quite young girls who were studying at the polytechnicum solving intricate problems of the theory of heat with the aid of the differential calculus as easily as if they had had years of mathematical training.

One of the Russian girls who studied mathematics under Weierstrass at Berlin, Sophie Kovalevsky, became a mathematician of high repute and was invited to a professorship at Stockholm.

She was, I believe, the first woman in our century to hold a professorship in a university for men.

She was so young that in Sweden no one wanted to call her anything but by her diminutive name of Sonia.

When I came to Zurich in 1872 and became acquainted with some of the students, I was astonished to see quite young girls who were studying at the polytechnicum solving intricate problems of the theory of heat with the aid of the differential calculus as easily as if they had had years of mathematical training.

One of the Russian girls who studied mathematics under Weierstrass at Berlin, Sophie Kovalevsky, became a mathematician of high repute and was invited to a professorship at Stockholm.

She was, I believe, the first woman in our century to hold a professorship in a university for men.

She was so young that in Sweden no one wanted to call her anything but by her diminutive name of Sonia.

When I came to Zurich in 1872 and became acquainted with some of the students, I was astonished to see quite young girls who were studying at the polytechnicum solving intricate problems of the theory of heat with the aid of the differential calculus as easily as if they had had years of mathematical training.

One of the Russian girls who studied mathematics under Weierstrass at Berlin, Sophie Kovalevsky, became a mathematician of high repute and was invited to a professorship at Stockholm.

She was, I believe, the first woman in our century to hold a professorship in a university for men.

She was so young that in Sweden no one wanted to call her anything but by her diminutive name of Sonia.

When I came to Zurich in 1872 and became acquainted with some of the students, I was astonished to see quite young girls who were studying at the polytechnicum solving intricate problems of the theory of heat with the aid of the differential calculus as easily as if they had had years of mathematical training.

One of the Russian girls who studied mathematics under Weierstrass at Berlin, Sophie Kovalevsky, became a mathematician of high repute and was invited to a professorship at Stockholm.

She was, I believe, the first woman in our century to hold a professorship in a university for men.

She was so young that in Sweden no one wanted to call her anything but by her diminutive name of Sonia.