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Sofya Kovalevskaya - an outstanding mathematician The first female professor in Russia and Northern Europe

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Russian mathematician and mechanic Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya (nee Korvin-Krukovskaya) (January 3 (15), 1850, Moscow - January 29 (February 10), 1891, Stockholm) - Russian mathematician and mechanic, since 1889 a corresponding member of the St.

Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Wife of Vladimir Kovalevsky, sister of Anna Jaclar. The first female professor in Russia and Northern Europe and the first female professor of mathematics in the world (Maria Agnesi, who previously received this title, never taught).

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Daughter of Lieutenant General of Artillery V. V.

Korvin-Krukovsky and Elizaveta Fedorovna (maiden name - Schubert). Grandfather Kovalevskaya, Infantry General F.F. Schubert, was an outstandi