Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Russian Софья Васильевна Ковалевская), also known as Sonya Kovalevsky (January 15, 1850-February 10, 1891), was the first major Russian female mathematician, and also the first woman who was appointed to a full professorship in Europe 1889 (Sweden).

Life and career

Acta Mathematica (1885)
Mémoire sur un cas particulier du problème de la rotation d'un corps pesant autour d'un point fixe, où l'intégration s'effectue à l'aide des fonctions ultraelliptiques du temps (1886)
The short article Sur un théorème de M. Bruns (1891) Tributes

Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem
Kovalevskaya (crater)