Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Sofia Kovalevskaya

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya, born Korvin-Krukovskaya, was a Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world – the first woman to obtain a doctorate in mathematics, the first woman appointed to a full professorship in northern Europe and one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor. According to historian of science Ann Hibner Koblitz, Kovalevskaya was "the greatest known woman scientist before the twentieth century".

Russian - Mathematician | January 15, 1850 - February 10, 1891

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Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others look. And the mathematician must do the same thing.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Sofia Kovalevskaya

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