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"Sonya Kovalevsky (1850-1891) was a Russian mathematician. She received her Ph.D from the University of Gottingen for her thesis on partial differential equations. In 1888 she won the Bodin Prize for her memoir on the rotation of a solid body about a fixed point." Excerpted from the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th. Edition 2007
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Did sonya Kovalevsky have brothers or sisters?
Yes, Anuita her older sister and a brother
1 Sonya has a bag of 54 different-colored marbles The marbles are blue red and green and are on the ratio 4 3 2 How many marbles does Sonya have that are a red blue?
Sonya has no red blue marbles. All she has are 24 blue, 18 red and 12 green.
What did sofya kovaleskaya do in math?
She was the first major Russian female mathematician. She discovered the Kovalevsky top which is a type of rigid body motion. She was a math professor as well as a writer of non-mathematical books.
Was sonya kolvalesky a real mathaician?
yes she was the first European woman to receive a doctorate
What math equation did sonya kovalskaya figure out?
She did not figure out a particular equation but found the set of conditions under which solutions to a class of partial differential equations would exist. This is now known as the Cauchy-Kovalevskaya Theorem.
