Sofia Vasilevskaya Kovalevskaya (Russian: Со́фья Васи́льевна Kovalevskaya) was born on January 15, 1850 and died on February 10, 1891. She grew up in a well-educated Roma family that had a Russian background.
She was the first great Russian mathematician responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics, and the first woman to be appointed professor in Northern Europe.
She was also one of the first women to work for a scientific journal as an editor.
There are several alternative translations to her name. She used Sophie Koualevski for her academic publications. After moving to Sweden, she was called Sonja.
Today, Sofia Kovalevskaia's achievements are highly valued by the world scientific community.
In her honor, they named the lunar crater and the asteropid. Sonya's photo was shown in 1951 on a Soviet postage stamp.
Since 1992 the Russian Academy of Sciences has awarded the mathematician with the prize named "S. Kovalevskaya.
In many cities of the post-Soviet space, more streets were named after the famous scientist. In Stockholm - Sweden, Great Luka in Russia and Vilnius, Lithuania got its name from educational institutions
