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Kovalevsky

American  
[kov-uh-lef-skee, -lev-] / ˌkɒv əˈlɛf ski, -ˈlɛv- /

noun

  1. Sonia Sofia Vasilievna Kovalevskaya, 1850–91, Russian mathematician.


Kovalevsky Scientific  
/ kŏv′ə-lĕvskē /
  1. Russian mathematician who made important contributions to calculus. Her mathematical determination of the shape of Saturn's rings became a model for other scientists.


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Beryozkin, Evgeny Kovalevsky and Frenchman Vincent Thomas Garate had left St. Petersburg, Russia, on July 1, 2021, and had been sailing from Vanuatu to Cairns when they got into trouble.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2023

A whole science devoted to the embryology of human institutions has thus developed in the hands of Bachofen, MacLennan, Morgan, Edwin Tylor, Maine, Post, Kovalevsky, Lubbock, and many others.

From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

Kovalevsky, W., on the pugnacity of the male capercailzie; on the pairing of the capercailzie.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

Madame Sophie Kovalevsky afterward appeared on the stage as the first female mathematician of our time, but it may be feared that the woman philosopher died with Miss Hamilton.

From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon

It was, as sketched by me under a simple microscope, plainly divided by transverse opaque partitions, which I presume represent the great cells figured by Kovalevsky.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

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