Презентация, доклад THE FIRST RUSSIAN WOMAN-SCIENTIST.

Ю.Г.Эрвье
Руководитель Макаров А.Д.

Тюмень, 2016

second half of the 19th century. It was the period of Russia’s progress in science and culture. It was the time when Lobachevsky created a new non-Euclidean geometry and Chebyshev organized a new school of mathematicians. 

well-off family but spent her childhood in a village. Her father, a well-educated person himself, gave a good education to his children. Being eight, Sophia was taught arithmetic, grammar, literature, geography and history by an experienced teacher.

where her family spent winters. But it was impossible for a woman to attend lectures at the University. Even Chebyshev who at that time headed the Russian mathematical school had no right to allow her to attend his own lectures.

in this case there was a condition that the woman should be married. Sophia married Vladimir Kovalevsky and soon left Russia. 

of research and practical work, in 1871 the Kovalevskya went to Berlin. During four years in Berlin Sophia wrote her dissertations. In 1874 Hettingen University awarded her the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Having returned to Russia, she vainly tried to get a post at St. Petersburg University.

elected professor of mechanics and was at this post until her death in 1891. In 1889 she was elected a Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.