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

I have even participated in Sonia Kovalevsky Days,* events to help get girls interested in studying math.

From Scientific American

In moths and certain saw-flies there is no rupture of the membranes; the Russian zoologists Tichomirov and Kovalevsky have described the growth of both amnion and embryonic ectoderm around the yolk, the embryo being thus completely enclosed until hatching time by both amnion and serosa.

From Project Gutenberg

Stockholm, University of, appointment of Sónya Kovalévsky to chair of higher mathematics in, 162, 183; Sónya Kovalévsky's lectures at, 164 footnote.

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That the number of savantes of the type of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Sónya Kovalévsky and Mme.

From Project Gutenberg

As an eminent mathematician as well as a "representative of the highest intellectual accomplishments to which women have attained," Sónya Kovalévsky will ever occupy an honored place among the votaries of science.

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