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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

At a dinner party the critic Protopopov came up to M. Kovalevsky, clinked glasses and said: "I drink to science, so long as it does no harm to the people."

From Note-Book of Anton Chekhov by Leonard Woolf

See the works of Post, Dargun, Kovalevsky, Lubbock, and their numerous followers: Lippert, Mucke, etc.

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

I'm not pretending to be in the class with Ibsen or Olive Schreiner or Sonia Kovalevsky!

From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. Comer

Recently it was described by M. Kovalevsky, who discovered it among the Pshavs, Shevsurs, Svanets and other Caucasian tribes.

From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels

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