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Sofya Kovalevskaya
Title: Sofya Kovalevskaya
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Sofya Kovalevskaya
Sofya Kovalevskaya whose nickname was Sonja, was born in Moscow in 1850 the daughter of a general. She started studying mathematics books as a girl, encouraged by her uncle Pyotr, but against the will of her father. however, soon after she started studying her father became aware of her remarkable talent and finally allowed her to take private lessons.
Sofya was born in Moscow Russia, on January 14.1850. Her father
Vasily Korvin-Krukovsky was the artillery general in …showed first 75 words of 529 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 529 total…that the poet must see what others do not see, must see more deeply than other people. And the mathematician must do the same"
Among her various other interests, Sofya worked on partial differential equations, integrals, and Saturn's rings. She won the Bordin prize of the French Academy of Science in 1888 for her work on the rotation of a solid body about a fixed point
Sofya died in 1891 of pneumonia, At the young at of 41.
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