Kovalevsky

American  

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

noun

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

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Kovalevsky Scientific  

/ kŏv′ə-lĕv′skē /

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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Example Sentences

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

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

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

Kovalevsky, Alexander, Russian embryologist, professor at St. Petersburg; studied and wrote on the Ascidians; b.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

Kovalevsky, A., on the affinity of the Ascidia to the Vertebrata.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

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

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