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Nicholas Jackson
November 2014
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Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891)
Born Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya inMoscow on 15 January 1850, second of threechildren (Aniuta, Sofia and Fyodor).
Married a young palæontologist calledVladimir Kovalevsky (1842–1883).
First woman to be awarded a doctorate inmathematics (Gottingen 1874).
First woman to hold a permanent chair at aScandinavian university (Stockholm 1889).
Died of influenza and pneumonia on10 February 1891.
The only woman in Men of Mathematics byE T Bell (1937)
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Later career
1878: Daughter Sofia Vladimirovna (‘Fufa’) born.1883: Vladimir commits suicide.1884: Appointed to five-year professorship at Stockholm.1886: Awarded the Prix Bordin of the Academie des Sciences.1888: The Struggle for Happiness, cowritten with Anne Charlotte Edgren-Leffler.1889: Appointed to permanent chair at Stockholm.
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15 January 2015
Sofia Kovalevskaya’s 164th Birthday
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Emilie
Emilie Sophia Claire Jackson
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