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Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
On January 15, 1850 in Moscow, Russia, Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya was born as the second child of Vasily Korvin-Krukovsky and Velizavela Shubert, both well-educated members of Russian nobility. Sofia was educated by tutors and governesses in her family's country estate in Palabino and St. Petersburg. Sofia became interested in mathematics at a very young age. Her uncle, Pyotr Vasilievich Krukovsky, spoke about mathematics to her. When Sofia was 11 years old, her nursery walls were covered with the pages of Ostrogradski's lecture notes on differential and integral analysis. She recognized parts of the papers that her uncle had mentioned. The papers were her introduction into calculus. Under the family's tutor, Y I Malevich, Sofia undertook her first proper mathematical studies. She began to enjoy mathematics so much that she neglected her other studies. Her father then put a stop to her mathematics lessons, but she borrowed a copy of Bourdeu's Algebra and read it at night as her family slept. She was later forced to marry so that she could study abroad, but her father would not allow her to heave home. At this time, Russian women couldn't live away from home without the consent from their father and husband. At the age of 18, she entered a normal marriage to a young paleontologist named Vla... Please login to view comments from other users.
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