Sofia Kovalevskaya was the first major woman Russian mathematician and was responsible for coming up with numerous contributions to analysis. She also made contributions to differnential equations and mechanics. Sofia Kovalevskaya was also the first women appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe. After many years of studying she was appointed she was granted a Chair in the Russian Academy of Sciences, but was never offered a professorship in Russia. She died of influenza in 1891 at age 41.
I chose Sofia Kovalevskaya because she was a Russian mathematician and that intrested me greatly. she was also all about amth all of her life and that was wierd to me because I don't understand how you can be that into math so I wanted to learn more. Plus, she moved around alot and was a big math figure head in the Russian community when it came to mathematics. Other than that the only real reason I wanted to write about her is because her name is awesome.
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