Date: Jan 15, 2014
Location: Russia
Tags: Triangle, Mathematician, Top, Red, Mathematics, Rotation, Kovalevskaya Top
History:
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1850 – 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe. She was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor.
