19th-century Russian mathematician. Sofia Kovalevskaya was born on 3 January 1850 in what is now the Russian Federation. Sofia Kovalevskaya is remembered as a mathematician, physicist and novelist, a citizen of the Russian Empire and Sweden. Notable works include “Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem” and “integrable rigid body”.
Before and after
- 1850Publication of David Copperfield
- from 1850 to 1940Rise of first-wave feminism
- from 1850 to 1910Selknam genocide
- c. 1850Layard unearths the royal library of Nineveh
- 3 January 1850Birth of Sofia Kovalevskaya
- 7 March 1850Birth of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
- 6 June 1850Birth of Karl Ferdinand Braun
- 9 July 1850Death of Zachary Taylor
- 5 August 1850Birth of Guy de Maupassant
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