Sofia Kovalevskaya

Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian: Со́фья Васи́льевна Ковале́вская) (1850–1891) was a Russian mathematician. There are some alternative transliterations of her name. She herself used Sophie Kowalevski (or occasionally Kowalevsky), for her academic publications. After moving to Sweden, she called herself Sonya.

External links

• O’Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., “Sofia Kovalevskaya”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kovalevskaya.html .