Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya

1850 - 1891

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Kovalevskaya made valuable contributions to the theory of differential equations.
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List of References (14 books/articles)

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Additional Material in MacTutor

  1. Preface to Kochina's Biography of Kovalevskaya
  2. Anna Carlotta Leffler on Sonya Kovalevskaya
  3. A comment from Thomas Hirst's diary

Honours awarded to Sofia Kovalevskaya
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  4. Agnes Scott College
  1. Bellevue College USA
  2. University of Heidelberg (In German)
  3. Mathematical Genealogy Project
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