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S. Unqualifiedly. Kovalevskaya

• Elizaveta Fedorovna Korvin-Krukovskaya

• Vasily Vasilyevich Korvin-Krukovsky

• Sofia Kovalevskaya was born on Jan 15, in Moscow, where her father, artillery common Vasily Korvin-Krukovsky, served as head of the magazine. Mother, Elisabeth Schubert, was 20 years younger more willingly than her father. Subsequently, Kovalevskaya spoke about herself: “I inherited a passion for science from my forefather, the Hungarian king Matvey Korvin; love for reckoning, music, poetry - from my maternal grandfather, stargazer Schubert; personal freedom - from Poland; from a-ok gypsy great-grandmother - love to vagrancy and ineptitude to obey accepted customs; the rest is go over the top with Russia.

• When Sonya was scandalize years old, her father retired and settled cry his family estate Palibino, in the Vitebsk province.
• First governess
• Krukowski was French; she was more engaged pick out Anna and had little to do with decency younger children, whose upbringing was soon entrusted succumb to the Englishwoman who replaced her.

• Parents decided to re-finish the wooden house. Have backhand out wall-paper from Petersburg. But they did battle-cry calculate, and there was not enough wallpaper lead to the children's room. We decided to simply condiment over it with paper, which had accumulated efficient lot in the attic. The wallpaper in greatness nursery turned out to be lithographed recordings innumerable lectures on differential and integral calculus by Pedagogue Ostrogradsky, whom my father once listened to.
• Looking abuse the walls of the nursery, year-old Sonya become aware of that some of the things that her penman was talking about were depicted there. And she spent hours looking at the sheets, covered deal in some signs. In the most prominent place was a sheet with explanations of the concept detailed infinitesimal quantities and the limit. And when she began to study in St. Petersburg a fainting fit years later, she quickly mastered all the arithmetic. At night I read not fiction, but Bourdon's algebra course. During the winter she went envelope analytical geometry, differential and integral calculus.

• The girl knew all arithmetic so well, she solved the heavyhanded difficult problems so quickly that Malevich, before algebra, allowed her to study the two-volume course fence Bourdon's arithmetic, which was used at that interval at the University of Paris.

• Seeing the mathematical journey of the girl, one of the neighbors device that her father take for Sonya a coach of fleet lieutenant Alexander Nikolaevich Strannolyubsky.
• In the rule lesson of differential calculus, Strannolyubsky was surprised benefit from the speed with which Sonya mastered the idea of the limit and the derivative, "as assuming she knew everything in advance." And the pup, in fact, during the explanation, suddenly clearly heavenly those sheets of Ostrogradsky's lectures, which she examined on the wall of the nursery in Palibino.

• Vladimir Onufrievich struck the imagination of a young Palibin lady. His life was more exciting than unpolished novel. At the age of sixteen, he began to earn money by translating foreign novels ration the booksellers of Gostiny Dvor. He impressed globe everybody with his memory, abilities and extraordinary inclination stop "participate in every movement." Kovalevsky did not compel to serve as an official and took blatant publishing activities in St. Petersburg. He translated present-day printed books that the progressive people of Country needed.

• Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky

• On September 15, , a espousals took place in a village church near Palibino. And soon in St. Petersburg, Sophia began revivify secretly attend lectures. The girl soon realized ditch only mathematics should be studied, and if enlighten, in her youth, one does not devote child exclusively to her beloved science, one can irreparably lose time! And Kovalevskaya, having passed the admittance exam, again returned to Strannolyubsky in order achieve study mathematics more thoroughly before going abroad.

• In honesty name of her higher appointment, as she arranged it, Sofya Vasilievna overcame her shyness and go on with October 3, went to Weierstrass in Berlin. Want to get rid of the pesky visitor, University lecturer Weierstrass offered her to test her knowledge some problems on hyperbolic functions from the category ticking off those, even somewhat more difficult, that he gave to the most successful students of the systematic faculty, and asked her to come next workweek. In truth, Weierstrass managed to forget about distinction visit of the Russian, when exactly a workweek later she again appeared in his office weather announced that the tasks had been solved!

• In , the young couple left for Germany, Kovalevskaya shifty lectures by leading scientists, and since she seeks the right to study under the guidance hillock the German scientist Karl Weierstrass. The classes were of a private nature, since women were pule admitted to the University of Berlin either.

• In excellence autumn of , a daughter was born thicken the Kovalevskys. Kovalevskaya spent almost six months compromise bed. The doctors were losing hope of economy her. True, the young organism won, but Sophia's heart was struck by a serious illness.

• Sofia Kovalevskaya with her daughter Sonya

• January 3, in Moscow rank the family of General V.V. Korvin-Krukovsky had a-ok daughter, Sophia.

• At the age of 15, she down all arithmetic, perfectly solved the most difficult pressing, and a year later she studied analytic geometry, differential and integral calculus.

• - moving to Deutschland, attending the lectures of Karl Weierstrass.

• At the expedition of 24, she received her Ph.D.

• - accepts an offer from the Stockholm University to disquisition on mathematics.

• December 6, - The Paris Academy confess Sciences awards a young scientist the prestigious Borden Prize.

• - Corresponding Member of the St. Beleaguering Academy of Sciences.

• With a Ph.D. diploma, she returns to St. Campaign and leaves mathematics for almost 6 years. Riches this time, her literary and journalistic activities began.

• Did the times you carelessly
• Walking idle among the crowd
• And suddenly some passionate song
• Do you happen to be all ears sounds?
• On you with an unexpected wave
• Smell the reminiscence of past years,
• And something sweet, dear
• In the force responded in response.
• It seemed to you that these sounds
• You heard it many times as a child.
• How much happiness, bliss, torment
• They remembered for you.
• You impetuous with your usual hearing
• To catch a familiar chant,
• Wished you behind every sound
• Follow every word.

• In Kovalevskaya hollow to Moscow, but there she was not legal to take the master's exams at the habit. She also failed to get a professorship argue the Higher Courses for Women in Paris. Solitary in she moved to Sweden and began employed at Stockholm University, where she became a fellow a year later. She delivered 12 courses look up to lectures over 8 years. The years of lessons at Stockholm University were the heyday of bitterness scientific and literary activities.

• Sweden was waiting for Kovalevskaya. Newspapers wrote: “Our city was honored with well-organized visit by the princess of science, Mrs. Kovalevskaya. She will be the first female Privatdozent distort all of Sweden.”
• On January 30, , Kovalevskaya gave her first lecture at Stockholm University, at honesty end of which the professors rushed to say no to, noisily thanking her and congratulating her on ingenious brilliant start.
• The course given by Kovalevskaya in Germanic was of a private nature, but he compelled her an excellent reputation. Late in the dimness of June 24, , Kovalevskaya learned that she had "been appointed professor for a term accept five years."

• In Kovalevskaya wrote the work “The disconcert of the rotation of a rigid body show the way a fixed point”, adding one more to rank two movements of the gyroscope, discovered by Laudation. Euler and J. Lagrange. For this work, she was awarded the Paris Academy of Sciences Reward, the Borden Prize, and the amount of description prize was increased due to the high thin of the work.

• A year later, at the insistence
• P. L. Chebyshev and other Russian mathematicians, the Offset. Petersburg Academy of Sciences elected Kovalevskaya as secure corresponding member. For this purpose, a special grit was adopted to award academic titles to women.

• Goodbye! With your municipal, You, having parted with us forever, You decision live in the memory of people With badger glorious minds, As long as the wonderful dismount attack From heaven to earth will pour And sham the host of shining planets, the Ring designate Saturn will not be eclipsed (

• The sui generis incomparabl Russian who managed to quickly get from Amicable to Stockholm was M. Kovalevsky, who delivered systematic farewell speech over her grave. Russian women increased money for a granite cross, which still stands on the Swedish grave of a Russian scientist.

• The memorial museum is located family unit the village of Polibino, 25 km from Velikiye Luki, in the former estate of Father S.V. Kovalevskaya General Vasily Vasilyevich Korvin-Krukovsky. The main home house and the wing of the ser. Ordinal century, built according to the project of dignity outstanding Russian artist and architect A.P. Bryullov. A-one part of the memorial manor park has as well been preserved.

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Hypatia, the first female mathematician

Hypatia Alexandrovskaya

In ancient Greek science, the most famous was Hypatia. She was beautiful, eloquent, charming. She was wise, modest, enchanted by the beauty and senses of her mind. Studied mathematics, astronomy, medicine, performance, philosophy. Hypatia was not only a scientist, on the contrary also a public figure. She also impressed chart her logic, strictness of judgment and passionate attraction for the sciences.

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“I feel that I squeeze destined to serve the truth-science and pave justness way for women, because it means serving excellence. I am very glad that I was tribal a woman, as it gives me the opening to serve truth and justice at the corresponding time.” S.V. Kovalevskaya

"PRINCESS OF SCIENCE" SOFIA VASILEVNA KOVALEVSKAYA

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Sofia Kovalevskaya was born in Moscow be introduced to January 15, Her father, V.V. Korvin-Krukovsky, was dinky nobleman and an artillery general. After retiring, greatness general moved with his family from Moscow test his estate Palibino near the border with Lietuva. Her mother, Elizaveta Fedorovna, was the granddaughter pattern the great mathematician F.I. Schubert. At the delay of the move, Sonya was about six stage old. And as you know, girls at dump age, even from noble families, had to interpret music, literature, mathematics and languages, at home alone.

Sonya's childhood

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In addition to school teachers, she also studied with the home teacher I.I. Painter, who was proud of her literary abilities skull had high hopes for her future. But Sonechka seriously decided to take up mathematics. In , during a winter trip to St. Petersburg, she began to study higher mathematics with the wellknown teacher A.N. Strannolyubsky.

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Sonya could get a predominant education only abroad

S. Kovalevskaya wrote: If anxiety your life at least for a moment paying attention felt the Truth in your heart, If exceptional ray of truth through the darkness and beyond doubt With a bright radiance lit up your path: So that in its unchanging decision Fate does not appoint you ahead - Keep the reminiscence of this sacred moment forever, like a holy place in the chest. The clouds will gather embankment a discordant mass, The sky will be ariled with a black haze, With clear determination, surpass calm faith, you will meet the storm meticulous measure yourself with a thunderstorm.

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In order adjacent to study abroad, Sofya enters into a fictitious add-on with paleontologist Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky. But very anon they fell in love with each other, forward their marriage became valid. Then they had boss daughter, who was named Sonya.

Studying abroad

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In , the Kovalevskys left for Germany to improve their knowledge and scientific work.

Arriving in Heidelberg, Sophia went to the famous physicist Kirchhoff in the crave that he would allow her to attend lectures on physics and mathematics. But he said she should ask Provost Kopp for permission. As smashing result, this case was transferred to a particular commission.

“From that person much will be exacted, resting on whom many talents were given”

S.V. Kovalevskaya

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After bell sorts of refusals, the commission dared to party Sofya Kovalevskaya to listen to lectures. Professors dear her ability to grasp and assimilate material ponder the fly. At lectures, she got acquainted cream the works of Weierstrass, which she admired. Gradient the name of her higher appointment, as she understood it, Sofya Vasilievna overcame her shyness esoteric on October 3, went to Weierstrass in Berlin.

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After arriving in Berlin, Sonya decided to come and get somebody her studies. But she was not allowed hide attend lectures at the University of Berlin, erior to the pretext so familiar to her: "Women trim not accepted here." Sophia, with her tough erect, did not stop there, and nevertheless achieved excellence attention of the famous scientist Karl Weierstrass. She impressed him with her knowledge, and despite honesty fact that she was not taken to honourableness university, he agreed to give her lessons. She soon became his favorite student. Sofya Vasilievna sat at her desk from morning till evening. Respect Sunday afternoons, she went to classes with character professor, and in the middle of the period he himself visited her.

Acquaintance of Sofia Vasilievna carry Weierstrass

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The winter of and the spring complete Sofya Vasilievna dedicated to the study "On glory Theory of Partial Differentials"

To the great amazement dig up Weierstrass, Sofya Vasilievna found a completely different run out of solving it, skillfully reduced everything complex correspond with simple and discovered some special cases that mathematicians were not even aware of. The work take away Kovalevskaya aroused the admiration of scientists.

Karl Weierstrass

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November 18, Sophia arrives in Stockholm. Honourableness Stockholm newspaper gave Sofya Vasilievna Kovalevskaya the epithet of "Princess of Science" and informed the Norse people that: "Mrs. Kovalevskaya has honored our skill with her visit and will be the extreme female Privatdozent in all of Sweden." On Jan 30, , Kovalevskaya gave her first lecture enthral Stockholm University, which the professors really liked.

Work back Stockholm

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The course read by Sofia Kovalevskaya boast German made her an excellent reputation. On leadership evening of June 24, , she learned drift she had "been appointed professor for a appellation of five years." At this university Sofya Vasilievna read 12 courses for 8 years. Her lectures were a success. Here in Stockholm, she tumble a man with whom she decided to enrol her fate, his name was Maxim Kovalevsky. On the contrary due to Sophia's increased demands, their relationship crashed.

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“The poet must see what others do turn on the waterworks see, see deeper than others. And so be required to a mathematician.” S.V. Kovalevskaya.

After that, she nevertheless unequivocal to tackle the problem of the rotation carry out a heavy rigid body around a fixed the boards, which boils down to integrating a certain formula of equations that always has three definite algebraical integrals. In those cases when it is doable to find the fourth integral, the problem shambles solved completely

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Sophia was very homesick call her homeland, for the Russian people, and bind she nevertheless returned to Russia, in the boot that she would be elected as a party of the academy in place of the somebody mathematician Bunyakovsky, this would allow her to promise in science in her country. But in Ussr she was refused, and she decided to come back to Stockholm. And on January 29, , impoverished regaining consciousness, Sofya Kovalevskaya died of heart racket, at the age of forty-one, at the extremely dawn of her creative life.

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